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Advanced Masking....
Ok here is what i am looking to do , i am doing a site for a tattoo shop and in the intro page i want the tattoo gun to Spell the name of the tattoo shop... like if the name of the shop is MytattooShop , i want the tattoo gun to animate and write out the word(s) Mytattooshop while playing the sound of the gun... is there a way to do this with masking or some action script.. i really appreciate any help i can get on this.. thanks...

i already tried this tutorial and it confused the hell out of me...
http://www.flashkit.com/tutorials/An...-575/index.php

this is the effect i want to achieve but i dont understand the tutorial.. looking for something a little less complex (explanation wise). does anyone know where i can find a tutorial some what like this..
thanks..

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Advanced Masking?
hi everyone, this is for mx.

i have a bg pic in my swf1, this swf loads another swf2 into an mc on the stage. in swf2 is a box with a frame, what i want to know is there anyway to create a mask in swf2 that will mask the surounding area outside the box yet at the same time not mask the bg pic in swf1???

thanks
protocol

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Advanced Masking
This might sound like a dumb question but… heh heh, sounds familiar huh? I’m trying to create and effect similar to the scene in the cell where the vegetation grows out progressively. I can create that effect using masks, but the problem is that I’m having to use multiple masks so that different branches reveal in a natural looking way. I’ve tried using the same shape (as the one I’m revealing) with a shape tween to reveal, but that doesn’t work. So my question is – is there a way to do this with actionscript, or another way to simplify the process?

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Advanced Masking
Hey des anywhere know where I can find a advanced masking tutorial?? I want to learn how to achieve almost the same masking effect that is shown here. www.juxtinteractive.com Or if anyoone has a .fla I can study I would appreciate that too

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Advanced Masking?
How can i mask more than one layer?

The other question i have is, rather than the mask showing what's underneath (i can do that), i want the mask to hide what's underneath?

The effect i am looking to create is sliding text, in and out.

So the mask slides it in, and then slides it out.

Possible?!

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Advanced Masking
Oh k now. I have this huge bitmap that is laggin my Flash file so what I was going to do was instead of having an alpha fade for it, I would just have a mask do an alpha fade to show it but it won't work. Can somebody help me?

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Advanced Masking Of Mc's
In a nutshell...

I have a base mc- lets call it mc1

mc1 calls other mc's into another layer, call em mc2

Now here is the problem, one of the mc2's is a gallery which in itself loads about 100 jpegs which move around the bottom of the screen and loop, the trouble is the total width of the jpegs together is 8000 pixels and mc2 is only 680 so when mc1 loads the gallery mc2 in, you can see all the jpegs overflowing out of the mc2 alloted space (invading the space for mc1) I assume there is some ninja masking trick for this problem...

anyone care to share

cheers

Zen

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OO( )( ) Advanced Masking Effect
I have seen this effect somewhere, takes some explaining..........

say you have a photo on the stage, its layer is masked. What I want to achieve on the mask layer to introduce the image is to have lots of small dots (or any shape) gradually growing so they eventually overlap each other, thus exposing the entire image. Does that make sense?

Anyway I tried making a movie clip of a circle growing and putting multiple instances of it on the mask layer, but this didnt work.

Should something like this be done with actionscript? I cant seem to find any tutorials or .flas

Cheers

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Advanced Masking Question
Hey everybody.

I'm currently working a project where you can do the tired old "dress up a virtual character" in Flash. Of course everything else was easy about it, drag and drop clothing articles on the character, etc. However, this particular project had a bit of a twist. The end-user will be allowed to upload their photo, and then super-impose their head onto the top of the character they are dressing up.

Originally I figured we'd just use a pre-sized oval mask, and have the user resize the photo into the oval mask so that their head fits in it. But the client is inquiring as to whether it would be possible to allow the user to perhaps draw an outline around the portion of the photo they want to extract, and then have Flash mask it that way.

Do any of you know if this is possible? I presume it's going to be a mixture of the drawing API and various other actionscript voodoo, but since I'll be dealing with basically dynamically masking a dynamically-loaded image, I figured I'd do some research on the feasability of this before wasting time, since I have one week left to completion.

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Advanced Line Masking?
So I'm making a webpage intro that has three curved lines, all coming in one by one. The client also wants a "highlight" or "pulse" to run across the lines. I made a copy of the lines and created a mask so that a small white pulse would appear to go across each curved line. The problem is is that it looks like poo. The edges of the 'pulse' are sharp, and I cannot get them to actually look like a reflection of light. Is there any way of doing this with a gradient or something so that it actually looks like a light reflection? Thanks

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Advanced Scrollbar/masking
A week or so ago I made myself a neat little scrollbar by doing this great tutorial http://www.kirupa.com/developer/flash8/scrollbar.htm . I tried to get a bit further by experimenting, and these questions came to mind:

- How can I get this scrollbar to work with DYNAMIC text?
- Can I use a loader to load an html file with only text into the scrollbar? (so that if I change the html file and replace the online version, the new text will appear in the scrollbar).
- Can I combine the scrollfunction with a mask? F.e. an image with a layer above it with a mask showing part of it and the mask being manually shifted from one part of the image to the other? Maybe that's not a scrollbar but a slider...? I just want to be able to manually shift a mask over an image.

Questions questions... Any help much appreciated! Thanks to all who made the tutorials, great help indeed

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Question About Advanced Masking Effect
Whats up,
I posted this question be4 but only to get no help. The masking effect on this site
http://www.poisonthewell.com. Upon entering the site there is a heart on the right that becomes visible by using some type of advanced masking technique.
Can anyone point me in the right direction as to how this effect was done?
Im thinking theres just a bunch of circular tweens within a mc, then that mc is used over the heart as a mask?? Im not sure.
Any help is nice..
late

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I Don't Get This Stupid Advanced Photo Masking Thing
I REALLY need help with this. This is my first time using flash and i downloaded the trial version of adobe CS3 flash. I tried to follow the directions in this site http://www.smartwebby.com/Flash/phot...s.asp#adv_mask
...but yea...I basically got really lost after the simple photo masking. I tried many times doing the advanced one, i had all the arrows and stuff but whenever i tired testing it, it doesn't work. It's just blank, then a flash of the picture really quickly then blank for a longer period of time then the picture. Please help me out!!! I'm doing this for a non-profit website.

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Advanced Masking Effects In Transitions--programmatic Or Timeline/graphics?
Hi everyone,

I've cobbled together some of my own effects to do less complicated stuff like this, but I'm hoping someone can sort of tell me "yeah, this is how they do that":

I've seen galleries with transitions between images, or transitions between content on Flash sites, where the wipe to the new content is some very complicated graphical mask--like maybe the old sort of breaks up into hundreds of "shards" and disintegrates to reveal the new content. This is programmatic, right? Or are people using manually created mask animations to do some of this stuff? Does anyone have any links to tutorials of this type of animated transition stuff? I've seen many variations, but all SEEM to be some type of heavy-duty programmed animated masks or programmed manipulation of the leaving bitmap data that is happening at runtime.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. THanks!

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Masking Issue - Image 'pops' Out Of Masking
ok i been attempting to fix this tiny, but obvious glitch for hours...

3 layers on timeline

bottom layer has 6 different images at regular intervals (every 26 frames).

middle layer is masking the bottom layer. it contains a movie clip of animation of a square shrinking to basically nothing then expanding again (with a 3 frame pause before it expanding again). Basically like a shutter closing then opening.

the top layer is empty except for the action script calls in key frames at intervals to start the animation of the mask. just uses gotoAndPlay('label') to the movie clip in middle/mask layer.

PROBLEM:
The change of pictures if offset in the timeline so the change occurs during the closing of the shutter (mask hiding all of the image).
so the mask movie clip is in layer 2 frame 1.
the first image is in layer 3 frame 7.

for some reason the very first image just pops over the closed shutter i.e. it is visible even though it should hidden. The subsequent 5 image changes behave as they are supposed to.

whiskey tango foxtrot....

edit note:
this movie clips is then placed on the main time line and itself one of a few a masked layers.

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Masking Tricks And Masking Designs
Hi,

I am wondering if someone could direct me to any Flash technique websites that focus solely on a variety of masking tricks and techniques. My vision is to create Flash animations that employ the same design effects as Adobe After Effects..and I've seen plenty of that on TV commercials.

So far I'm checking out Kirupa.com www.kirupa.com

Thanks! I have Flash MX

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Masking Not Completely Masking
i'm masking stuff but there are some artifacts. here's a screen shot:

http://filebox.vt.edu/users/jizietz/seethroughmask.jpg

i drew red arrows pointing to the artifacts. i've got a mask over the rectangle on the left, and things are scrolling into view from right to left. unfortunately, things are showing up outside of the mask. is this because my background color isn't white? any ideas here?

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Masking On Masking - A Dynamic Jpg
Hi Fk'ers.
I've got a problem.. I want to mask a a dynamic jpg, but I can't seem to make it happen.
Please help me.. Quite desperate!

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Masking On Masking - Dynamic Jpg.
Hi Fk'ers.
I've got a problem.. I want to mask a a dynamic jpg, but I can't seem to make it happen.
Please help me.. Quite desperate!
I've attached the file, so it's easier to see what I mean.

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Advanced Help
Hi,
I am trying to connect with a mysql database with PHP to create a multi user chat server. Could be a game server as well. I found a tutorial at Ultrashock, but not much luck. I have set up a mysql database with 'chatUsers" and 'chatMessage' fields. I have the right connection string for it. PHP trouble? Actionscript trouble? I don't know! Any help?

Thx in advance!!
~GD~

Here is the fla...
http://caveart.tv/testchat/split_chat.fla

here is the swf that just times out...
http://caveart.tv/testchat/chatt.swf

Here is the PHP...........

Removed the PHP code, made the post too long.......
I think the PHP script is ok, the problem I'm having is hooking up to the database itself. If you would like to see the PHP I can e mail it.
[Edited by grvdgr on 07-14-2001 at 10:19 PM]

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Advanced Get URL //
Hi,
I need to open new window with this code:

javascript:window.open ('http://www.mrmnhj.co.il/zafira/mini.html', 'newWin2', 'status=yes,width=600,height=350,top='((screen.hei ght/2)-(175))+',left='+((screen.width/2)-(300))); void(0);

Simply put it in the geturl command doen't work.

Please replay only if you know for sure

Rob.

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Advanced I Think
Hi!

Again me with my stupid problems

I wanted to know if there is any way of controlling(altering alpha) an graphics object(called taust) through an externaly loaded swf.My main movie is called "avaleht"(the movie that contains the graphics object taust) and the external swf is called firmast.swf.

I know i could do this when i transform the "taust" into a seperate movieclip and externaly load it into my mainmovie, and than use firmast.swf to alter the alpha on taust.swf,
but thats just what i don`t want.

Tons of thx in advance

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Not Sure If Possible...anyone Know? (advanced)
Is it possible to get the "instance name" of the mc that another mc was duplicated from?

In other words.... if i have one mc...and i many 100 duplicates of it.... is it possible that any one of these new mc's can find out who they were "a copy of"?

I really hope this is possible... I know about _name and _parent... but I don't think that helps me..

TIA

-Ryan

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2 Advanced.com
Hai everyone

Does any one of you know what fonts do they use in 2 advanced website. If you know please give a link or the name of the font.

Thanks

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2 Advanced
Hi,

I was on the site of 2advanced ( http://www.2advanced.com ) and I saw the awesome backgroundimage with the clouds.
Can anyone tell me how I can do that?
Thanks in advance
Greetings
Camme

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Advanced AS Q
In the example movie http://www.flashkit.com/movies/Third...8108/index.php there are several things that I cannot reason out. If any advanced programmer could please explain these questions I would be VERY gratefull!

1. Why in the .txt file do they put !# before everything?
2. In the accompaning .txt file why do they put flashstudio. before thier variables?
3. I just dont understand what the flash variable cmd_name does in the MC

Pretty much all I am interested in is understanding the search code, so if it is not applicable dont waste to much time explaining it, although I would still like to understand that also.

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Advanced Pop's Ups
Hello Guy's and Girls. IT is I again - still trying to figure this out.

Here is the issue: My main site is a pop up from the splash page. I have links on the main site that I want to pop up as well in it's own window. (Independent from the original pop up).

In basic form: How do I create a pop up from a pop up?

Is it even possible?

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More Advanced Help?
i have about 10 books on flash, i have looked at almost every tutorial on this site. yet still, none of the sites that i can do are anywhere near the level that i see other people doing.

my main question is just trying to figure out what the next step would be... i'm pretty good with actionscript and i've got most of the flash basics down, in fact, if you'd like to see one of the sites i've done you can go to difuzhan.com

if you know of any good books or anywhere that i can get some more advanced training please let me know

thanks

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Advanced Help
Hello, im using flash mx 04 pro, and i have this problem thats making me go crazy!!! ok... im making this game and it adds a movie with the
code: attachMovie("name","name"+dpth){
blah blah
}

ok and now this works properally, but i want to give the new move an instance name is there any possible way? any help will be gratful

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Advanced Help
ok people im making a sorta zelda and i want to have save files is there any way i could use coding to save all my variables into a .doc or somthing???? help will be greatly apreciated thanks

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Me Vs. 2 Advanced
This may be an impossible or stupid question but..
I have a 24kb swf loading a 21kb swf.
all vector, no bitmaps..
no action script..well, not really
simple button rollovers with goto and play small 15 frame animation.
how come my flash performance is not as good as say, 2 advanced.. I'm pretty sure they have more going on in the swf's than I have in mine.
I do have a looped animation in the background.. maybe thats it..

any ideas

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I Need Some More Advanced Help :)
ok, what im doing is making a dynamic picture album, and at the bottom i want a scrollable list of all the images i have so far with thumbnails...i attached a picture showing more in detail what i am trying to do...im using xml and i can load all the imformation and get it sorted right, but i just dont know how i would put thumbnails into the box and have it scrollable dynamically...ANY point in the right direction would be greatly appreciated, thank you

by the way, im also using mx2004, so maybe an AS2.0 class for creating each thumbnail and setting it all up may be the best route, but im new to AS2.0, so id need some explaination...and i dont have to worry about actually making the thumbnails in flash, they will all be loaded seperately and be the right size to begin with...so i dont have to worry about resizing them at all

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Advanced HP Bar
I've been currently working on a game these past couple weeks and my HP bar is pretty bad. Not graphicswise. What I would like to accomplish is make the health bar decrease as every single digit is lowered down, just like most other flash games. The current HP bar just lowers down every time 10 hitpoints decrease. Not very good huh? I hope someone can help me or teach me how. Thanks.

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Per 2 Advanced
How can you make the iteams shift around

Like in 2advanced, they move some of the navigation around when you maximize or minimize the window. How is this done.

Any help or point me in the right direction ? Is there a specific name for this ? Thanks

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[F8] Who Here Is Really Advanced With AS2.0?
I am a pure coder. I don't use anything on the timeline ever unless I want to separate a pre-loader from my content. In that case, my movie will have 2 frames. Otherwise, all my movies have just 1 frame.

Anyone else a pure coder? Or love to write / advance functions and formulas?

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Somewhat Advanced...
I was wondering how Paul Neave, www.neave.com, found out that this string of code produces certain colours with a fading effect, and how one would interpret this code so that it can do the same thing in another code. I would e-mail him, but he's currently slightly busy and took his mailer down.

This is where he defines his colours:

ActionScript Code:
function setBlobColor() {
// Page colour definitions c1 - Edge, c2 - Body, c3 - Header
switch (sectNum) {
case 1: // Neave Rant colours (blue)
c0 = 0x4499EE;
c1 = 0x8EC2F5;
c2 = 0xE7F2FD;
c3 = 0xFAFCFF;
cT = 0x224C77;
break;
case 2: // Neave Inspiration colours (red)
c0 = 0xDD3344;
c1 = 0xEA848E;
c2 = 0xF7CCD1;
c3 = 0xFEF5F6;
cT = 0x841E28;
break;
case 3: // Neave Photos colours (green)
c0 = 0x88CC33;
c1 = 0xB7E084;
c2 = 0xEDF8E0;
c3 = 0xFCFEF9;
cT = 0x365214;
break;
case 4: // Neave Games colours (purple)
c0 = 0xCC66DD;
c1 = 0xE0A3EA;
c2 = 0xF4DDF8;
c3 = 0xFEFBFE;
cT = 0x66336E;
break;
case 5: // Neave Lab colours (grey)
c0 = 0xAAAAAA;
c1 = 0xCCCCCC;
c2 = 0xF2F2F2;
c3 = 0xFFFFFF;
cT = 0x444444;
break;
case 6: // Neave Who? colours (orange)
c0 = 0xFF8822;
c1 = 0xFFB77A;
c2 = 0xFFE7D2;
c3 = 0xFFF9F4;
cT = 0x703D00;
break;
default: // Neave default (dark grey)
c0 = 0x333333;
c1 = 0x848484;
c2 = 0xCCCCCC;
c3 = 0xEBEBEB;
cT = 0x444444;
}
}

This takes the hexidecimal values and converts them to binary, shifts them a certain length, shifts the new colours, then recombines both into a new colour.

ActionScript Code:
function mixColor(c1, c2) {

// Split colours
var r1 = c1 >> 16;
var g1 = (c1 >> 8) & 0xFF;
var b1 = c1 & 0xFF;

var r2 = c2 >> 16;
var g2 = (c2 >> 8) & 0xFF;
var b2 = c2 & 0xFF;

// Recombine colours
var r = r1 + (r2 - r1) * mixCol;
var g = g1 + (g2 - g1) * mixCol;
var b = b1 + (b2 - b1) * mixCol;

return (r << 16 | g << 8 | b);
}

This portion of code controls the variance in the colours, making them grade to the new level.

ActionScript Code:
if (newCol) {
// New colour needs mixing
dn = false;
ci0 = mixColor(ci0, c0);
ci1 = mixColor(ci1, c1);
ci2 = mixColor(ci2, c2);
ci3 = mixColor(ci3, c3);
info_txt.textColor = mixColor(info_txt.textColor, cT);
mixCol += 0.02;
if (mixCol > 0.5) newCol = false;
}

If anyone has any idea as to how this is done, please let me know as this is something I've been wondering over for quite some time now.

Thanks,
DaVuLf

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How Advanced Is This.....
Hi everyone,

I came across a really good site and was wondering how difficult it would be to do something simialr in Flash. Here is the swf file url: http://www.frooition.com/files/swf/ebaydesignclients.swf

Is this really advanced flash? I'm quite a novice at flash. I have been using it on and off for work during the last few months, but wouldn't know where to start with this one!!

Thanks

Edited: 11/26/2008 at 08:52:12 AM by Wardy118

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About The Advanced 'F8'-ing
When we name an instance into a movie/button/graphic there is a little 'advanced menu' underneath the naming box...
what's the use of the 'linkage', 'export for action script' ? and all these functions ?

thnx

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Where To Get Advanced Help
where can i get advanced help with my code?

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Getting Desparate Now - Advanced?
I don't think it's a particularly tricky Question but no one seems to know - I need to reference several instances from within (I presume) a function. if anybody knows ANYTHING I'd be unbelievably gratious and buy you a car.
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Advanced HitTEST
I'm trying to create a hitTest where MAN, the moveable character, stops when it hits TREE, any still object that is blockable.

Is there a way to assign a hitTest to multiple TREEs (movie clips)? If not, I will create the background first and a custom clip that forms a transparent movieclip over all the TREE areas.

Either of those ways, when MAN detects TREE, he needs to stop and disable the direction he is going until undetected by TREE.

I'm thinking I can do that by setting variables each time one of the four direction keys is hit. When MAN detects TREE, it loads direction variable and disables key set to that variable. This should stop them from moving that certain direction, unless the person is faster than the script and hits another direction right when they get stuck.

It would also require that MAN stop detecting TREE until it is out, or all the keys will become disabled as long as it is detecting TREE.

I'm not sure if this was just for commentary or help. Either way, if you actually read this, put in your thoughts.

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Advanced Actionscripting?
anyone knows how the 2advanced interface actionscripts works or in short anyone knows the actionscripts? thanx in advance!!

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Advanced Stuff
I'll just cut to the chase!

I am moving mapMC using actionscript (_x and _y positions). Here's my problem:
I need things to happen if mapMC is moved to a certain position. so if I move mapMC to _x=500 and _y=450 I want to telltarget newMC to play. How would one write such an if statement? any help is much appreciated

I really can't use hitTest because mapMC is larger than the dimensions of the movie...
[Edited by flipsideguy on 08-20-2001 at 12:41 AM]

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***VERY ADVANCED ACTIONSCRIPT***
Ok, so i exagurate the title... (sp??)

Hey everyone, you might not know me because i havent been around for quite a while now... thats because i almost completely been wiped out of free time. Anyways, I need help and that is why I am here.

Here is the problem:

I am trying to make an object that is basically an array with some extra properties, parent, and child... anyways its not exactly those values, but what i want to do is kind of like:

Code:
// inside an mc
Array.prototype.parent = this;

except instead of that, i want an Object that inherits all of the properties/methods of an array and then add a few of its own. Inheritance in actionscript is not clearly explained, so I ask you for help for anyone who has actually experienced it.

Code:
function advancedArray()
{
this.prototype.__proto__ = Array.prototype.__proto__; // cant get it to work. invalid??
this.prototype.name = function () { return this._name; } // works

// private
this._name = "";
}

In the above example, I TRIED to make an advanceArray that calls the prototype of an array and then add one method to it. Is there any way to do that or am i just confused and sleepy??

Please let me know. Thanks.
-MoMad

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Advanced Masking Help...

Can someone give me a idea how to make a mask effect or transition effect like this -----> EXAMPLE. I've been trying all day and still haven't figured it out. A fla file would help me alot thanks...