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Masking A Movie Clip Containing Dynamic Text?
I have a simple hand made dynamic scroller. It runs from a text file.

fyi : when i refer to 'record display' below, I mean the movie clip which contains a dyamic text field. the text field is were the loaded data shows up.

If I mask the scroller (in order to clip the viewing area correctly), it incorrectly displays the records in the scroller (it shows the text, and one record display). If I remove the mask, everything displays correctly, but nothing is clipped.

if you look in the text file (CellData.txt), you can set the first variable MASK, to true if you want flash to mask the scroller, or to anything else (false) if you want to see how it looks without the masking.

what is the workaround for this. I have included an example

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Masking A Movie Clip Containing Multiple Dynamic Text Fields
I have a containiner mc with multipe mc's inside. each of these mc's is being used as a button and contains a dynamic text field. all of this is created dynamically. the effect being that i have a list of names loaded from an external file. the user can click on a name and access more info. everything is fine so far but now i'm trying to make this list scrollable. I want the mask so I can define the scroll window area. i have tried using setmask. this makes t so the mc-buttons outside the mask are not functional but they are still visible.

any ideas here? thank you to all who can help.

the following is the script used to make the buttons.

for (this.i = 0; i < directors.length; i++){
while (load_done == false) {
directorname = directors[i];
this.director_name_container.createEmptyMovieClip ("directors"+i, i + 4)
this.director_name_container["directors"+i].createTextField("director",1,0,0,200,20);
this.director_name_container["directors"+i].director.variable = "name";
this.director_name_container["directors"+i].director.border = false;
this.director_name_container["directors"+i].name = directorname;
this.director_name_container["directors"+i].director.setTextFormat(myformat);
this.director_name_container["directors"+i].director._y = 0 + inc_y;
this.director_name_container["directors"+i].director._x = 0;
load_done = true;
_global.numdirectors++;
}

inc_y = inc_y + 20;
load_done = false;
}

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Flash 5: Scrolling A Movie Clip, Masking
So I have a Content Movie clip, then a mask movie clip and then the Final cut that has the Mask clip inserted, a background (which is approx. half the height of the content, but the same size as the mask), and the Scroll Arrows, back, and slidebar. This is then inserted in a frame in a scene.

First problem: when the content is masked nothing shows up.
Second problem: I don't know how to scroll the movie clip I have only scrolled text boxes.
Third Problem: I have some buttons in the content MC that set variables.. how do I access that variable from the Frame in the scene.

If anyone can answer any of these questions it would be greatly appreciated thank you.

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Masking A Movie Clip
Ok, i have a movie clip(a) on the main timeline.
on frame 1 of this movie clip i have a second MC(b).

when i click a button, the timeline of MC A plays frames 2 - 10 which is a tweened shape on a mask layer to cover over MC B

MC B is a 20 frame looping animation but my problem is that when the mask tweens over, MC B always jumps back to frame 1 and starts playing again, same thing happens when i un-mask it.

if i change the mask layer into a normal shape layer it works fine and MC B carries on looping independently to anything else its just when there is a mask layer MC B allways jumps back to frame 1.

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Masking A Movie Clip...
Hi All,
I am having some problems masking a movie clip and was wondering if maybe I could get some help! My problem is as follows...

If I import a picture to the stage and set it as a movie clip I can mask it no trouble, but if I create the movie clip using actionscript, something like

_root.createEmptyMovieClip("myImage", 0);
myImage.loadMovie(jukebox.jpg,false);

and then try to mask it I cant! All that happens is that the movie appears above everything else.

Cant figure out what I'm doing wrong!

Any Ideas???

Cheers,
Stephen

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Masking Movie Clip?
Hey guys

Can anybody tell me how to mask a movieclip?
I create it like this.

ActionScript Code:
var container:MovieClip = new MovieClip();
this.addChild(container);

But if I try to put a mask Layer over the layer where the actionScript is it doesn`t work.

Hope u understand my Problem.

Thanks Martin

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Masking A Movie Clip (_mc)
On my main timeline, I've created two layers. One is a movie clip (_mc NOT .swf), and the other (above) is a simple rectangular shaped mask(ing layer). Instead of the mask revealing the area of the movie clip that I want to show, it makes the entire layer beneath invisible. I've made thousands of masks, but have never had this problem. Is there something specific that I have to do to a mask or its masked layer if the masked layer is a movie clip?

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Masking A Movie Clip
Is there some trick to masking a movie clip? I have two movie clips that I am placing on the same layer and duplicating about 20 times. One is a ball that vibrates and I can mask that one with no problem. The other movie clip is a ball that bounces around the screen. No matter where I place it, this bouncing ball will not get masked.

I have no clue what is going on. Help would be much appreciated!

JRW

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Movie Clip Masking
Can anyone explain how to animate multiple movie clips as a mask?

similar to the transitions in the sections for: exopolis.com

thanks in advance

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Masking Masked Movie Clip
Did mask a movie clip that contained mask layer, but that masking which was contained inside of the movie clip doesn't work.
How to make 'em both work?

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Masking Big Movie Clip / Image
Hi all,

does anybody know about some action script, which would mask the big movie clip / image(1600 x 1200)?
Example: http://www.manipulator.com/
Thank you for any help.

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[F8] Masking A Movie Clip For A Button
I’m having trouble with a masked moving clip that I’m trying to use for a button. My goal is to have moving water for a button when the mouse rolls over it. I already imported the water I want to use as a JPG, and turned it into a movie clip, but I haven’t been able to mask it. When I test the main movie and I roll over the button, I see the water moving like I want it to, but it’s the whole image, not just the circular shape I tried to mask. Is there a better way to do this or am I doing something wrong? Thanks.

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Masking Movie Clip Question
I have a problem with a website I'm working on, but before I try to explain all of it, let me just ask a general question that may help answering it without having to explain everything. I read somewhere that in an external swf, if you have a mask that is masking a MC, the mask reads the MC as 1 frame. Is this true and if it is how do you correct that problem? If I am looking through my MCs timeline and I want to click a different link, the mask reverts my MCs timeline to frame 1 before it masks it.

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Stuck In The Movie Clip Of Masking
Hi,
my problem is that I play a masking with a Movie Clip and can't get to the next scene after playing the mc once. here is the link to the file: http://teszt.netteam.hu/bgw/
I would like to skip to Scene2 and keep also the background music.
How would it be possible?
thanks for your kind help in advance

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Masking Scrollable Movie Clip
I've recreated text boxes"movie clips" that use a mask for scrolling. I found the tutorial online. The scroll boxes work perfectly but the mask is not working. When I unmask the box within my text movie clip and test you can see the text that is outside of the "mask" and watch it scroll. When I mask that layer (it looks like it's suppost to in my .fla file) and go to test you can't see any text at all? I appreciate any feedback:)
I don't think that it is anything in the existing code but I'm attaching all the action script just in case.
Thankx
Attach Code

up button scene1:
on (rollOver) {
tellTarget ("control") {
gotoAndPlay(2);
}
}
on (rollOut, dragOut) {
tellTarget ("control") {
gotoAndStop(1);
}
}
down button scene 1:
on (rollOver) {
tellTarget ("control") {
gotoAndPlay(5);
}
}
on (rollOut, dragOut) {
tellTarget ("control") {
gotoAndStop(4);
}
}
control:
-down frame 4: stop();
frame 5: y = getProperty("_root.text.content", _y);
if (y<-120) {
gotoAndPlay(4);
} else {
setProperty("_root.text.content", _y, y-6);
}
frame 6: gotoAndPlay(5);

up frame 1: stop();
frame 2: y = getProperty("_root.text.content", _y);
if (y>70) {
gotoAndStop(1);
} else {
setProperty("_root.text.content", _y, y+6);
}
frame 3: gotoAndPlay(2);

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Masking Scrollable Movie Clip
I've recreated text boxes"movie clips" that use a mask for scrolling. I found the tutorial online. The scroll boxes work perfectly but the mask is not working. When I unmask the box within my text movie clip and test you can see the text that is outside of the "mask" and watch it scroll. When I mask that layer (it looks like it's suppost to in my .fla file) and go to test you can't see any text at all? I appreciate any feedback:)
I don't think that it is anything in the existing code but I'm attaching all the action script just in case.
Thankx

Attach Code

up button scene1:
on (rollOver) {
tellTarget ("control") {
gotoAndPlay(2);
}
}
on (rollOut, dragOut) {
tellTarget ("control") {
gotoAndStop(1);
}
}
down button scene 1:
on (rollOver) {
tellTarget ("control") {
gotoAndPlay(5);
}
}
on (rollOut, dragOut) {
tellTarget ("control") {
gotoAndStop(4);
}
}
control:
-down frame 4: stop();
frame 5: y = getProperty("_root.text.content", _y);
if (y<-120) {
gotoAndPlay(4);
} else {
setProperty("_root.text.content", _y, y-6);
}
frame 6: gotoAndPlay(5);

up frame 1: stop();
frame 2: y = getProperty("_root.text.content", _y);
if (y>70) {
gotoAndStop(1);
} else {
setProperty("_root.text.content", _y, y+6);
}
frame 3: gotoAndPlay(2);

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Masking With A Movie Clip -problem
hey,
I have this movie clip made up of several graphic symbols. when i try to use this movie clip as a mask, only one of the symbols in the mc are masking, the others are'nt.
can anyone explain this to me and how to fix this??
thanks !!

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Masking Multiple Movie Clip Instances
Hi,
I'm trying to create a grid of square movie clips using the code below and then masking them so the Movie clips will only show thru the shape that I choose. I've got the first part working fine but I can't seem to mask them the way that I need. If i put a mask on layer then the MC's that get added with the attchMovie get put on top of it. I looked into the setMask() method but it didn't seem to work either. Any ideas would be great. Thanks.

Matt

Code:
w = 10;
h = 10;
across = 400/w;
down = 400/h;

for (i=0;i<down;i++){
for(j=0;j<across;j++){
counter = ((i*across)+j);

attachMovie("square", "square"+counter,counter);
mv = _root["square"+counter];

mv._x = j*w;
mv._y = i*h;
}
}

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[F8] Trouble Masking Empty Movie Clip
I hope to get some help with this as this is driving me crazy!!

I am creating an image scroll gallery similar to the following:

http://www.oman3d.com/tutorials/flash/imagegallery/

I have the thumbnail images in place and I can get it to scroll properly, but I want the edges to be rounded. Basically, I just want a rounded rectangle to mask this whole thing. I created a rounded rectangle, converted it to a movie clip and exported it with an instance name of "Mask." When I play the movie you can see the whole stage regardless (the mask is being completely ignored). Can anyone explain to me how to mask the container of an empty movie clip??

The following is my action script:

this.createEmptyMovieClip("container",1);
var imagesNumber:Number = 9;
var scrolling:Boolean = true;

for (i=1; i<=imagesNumber; i++) {
container.attachMovie("thumb"+i,"thumb"+i+"_mc",i) ;
myThumb_mc = container["thumb"+i+"_mc"];
myThumb_mc._x = (i-1)*myThumb_mc._width;
myThumb_mc._y = (Stage.height-myThumb_mc._height)/2;
myThumb_mc._alpha = 50;
myThumb_mc.setMask(Mask);
myThumb_mc.onRollOver = function() {
this._alpha = 100;
};
myThumb_mc.onRollOut = function() {
this._alpha = 50;
};
}

container.onEnterFrame = function() {
if (scrolling){
this._x += Math.cos((-_root._xmouse/250)*Math.PI)*15;
if (this._x>10) {
this._x = 10;
}
if (-this._x>(this._width-250)) {
this._x = -(this._width-250);
}
}
};

Thanks in advance for all of your responses.

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Masking A Movie Clip That Contains Other Movie Clips
hi,

i am just trying out something in flash but it just doesnt work.

I have a layer which has a movie clip which contains other movieclips in itself.

Masking the layer that has the main movie clip causes the other movieclips in the main one to disappear when running the swf.

Does any one have any idea how to get around this???

thanks

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Hey folks, I've got a weird one here...

I'm creating a grid of square "tile" movie clips, each of which contains a simple square button instance (and the scripting to handle those buttons). The movie clips are being loaded into a Masking layer, to incrementally reveal a portion of an underlying image

Behold exhibit A. When you roll over the tiles of revealed image, there's a popup balloon. NOTICE: the balloon only pops on every other tile.

Behold exhibit B. The only thing I changed was to make the layer into a standard layer. All scripting and button events seem to work flawlessly.

Could someone please explain to me why only every other button works on a masking layer? Or at least posit a theory?

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Masking Dynamic Text In Movie Clips
I know you guys get asked alot about masking dynamic text and the ususal answer is the embed fonts. well i dont want to ask you guys that.

I understand how to mask text. layer one have grey text, layer 2 have black text then create a mask on that layer of a green rectangle that i animated down the page.

I do no know how to mask movie clips.

I want to load in a text file to a movie clip.
I want to turn that text grey.
I want to then load in the same text file and set that text to grey
i then want to mask that text by having a rectangular shape go from the top of the screen to the bottom.

How do i go about loading text into each different dynamic box etc.

I may be asking too much if someone could make me up a really rough eg of how to do it.

Thanks for any input.

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I guess I could use attachMovie(), then duplicateMovie()...but it seems a little counter-productive. It would mean more loops and functions, and my head is already starting to spin.

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Using the debug facility I can see the the variables loaded into the movie clip instance. The scroller works outside the main movie (if I call the variables from within it).

It seems as if by importing the movie clip into another movie, that all dynamic text fields are somehow hidden/deleted or otherwise.

I've tried to place a static dynamic field with a border in the document to see if the border is displayed - to no avail. No dynamic fields are displayed.

Any ideas??

Sorry to burden yourselves with what will probably be, trivia.

Faithfully (& rather frustrated)

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I would like have something slide over the top of my text so it looks like it is really shiny, like the thing that happens when you get a piece of glass on the right angle to the sun, it glints.

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I can never get the text alligned to rotate at the fixed angle... nor does the pen tool mask ... the text does rotate clcokwise but at all weird angles .. sometimes 90, somtimes all the way around...
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The follow doesn't seem to work and I've searched everywhere all they all say this is how you do it but I can't get it to work...

///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
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////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

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the nested movie clip is as folo,

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ActionScript Code:
myData = new LoadVars();myData.onLoad = function(){placeTheDataIntoTheRightPlace();};myData.load("http://www.tsaconas.com/flash/myData.php");placeTheDataIntoTheRightPlace = function(){ txtBox1.text = myData.output; txtBox2.text = myData.output2; //this one is under the MC entitled 'movieClip_mc'};

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I want to be able to get a mask to the front of the stage and mask around 100 duplicated clips in one go.

I tried using swapDepths on a clip that was in a mask layer but all that did was lose my mask somewhere! Not sure where it went, maybe to the back...

I notice theres an action setMask() but this only works in masking a single clip. How can this be done? I want to keep the duplicated clips on the maintimeline rather than have them all within another clip. Surely I don't have to create a mask clip for EVERY clip I want to mask???

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