Further masking problem!

Hi There,

since my previous thread I have been experimenting, and came to the idea of creating a mask in actionscript as oppossed to putting it direct onto the stage, in the hope that this wouldn't cause problems with the swf file loaded on top of it. But this doesn't seem to make any difference.

For my experiment I created an FLA called "Scrollermask" that contained the code of the mask. This loads up my image bar, " Scroller.swf" and that works fine. But when I then load " gallery1.swf" from the first image into level 2, there is a "hotspot" where the mask is still running underneath. I can't seem to solve this problem.

Does anyone know if I can basically "hide" the "Scrollermask" on a blank frame until it is needed again. If so, how do I do it? I'm in a bit of a mess with my code in terms of where I put things etc. Can anyone help. I have included the FLA's so that you can see what I am trying to do.

Thanks again

Tom.

Attached Files

	scrollermask.fla (41.5 KB, 7 views)
	scroller.fla (1.09 MB, 6 views)
	gallery1.fla (738.5 KB, 4 views)

See your other post, and my reply about using AS and the _alpha class.

Thanks for the response.

I'm just not really sure how or where to do this. The buttons that control everything are nested in a movie clip inside the "Scroller.fla", which is,in turn, what is masked by Scrollermask.fla. I'm starting to get really lost as to where I am actually putting code in order for it to have an effect.

Any suggestions?

Thanks,
Tom.

The best practice is it put all of your actions on 1 frame on it's own layer so things are easy to find and indentify.

Say you have an object that you want to hide...in the properties panel give it a name of "hideme"

Then, on your buttons you have....probably something like this:

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on (release)
{
gotoAndStop(1); //or whatever
}

Say on that button release you also want it to hide the specific MC - make you code look like this:

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on (release)
{
gotoAndStop(1); //or whatever
_root.hideme._alpha = 0; //hides object change to 100 if you want it visible again within another button.
}

Thank you once again for taking the time to try and unravel my problems!
I think I really get what you are saying, and I will try it out tomorrow. I think I am going to adapt my ideas a bit, as I think I am causing myself unnecessary problems with what I am trying to do. I think I might go back to the "scrolling bar with a mouse over event" which won't have a mask on it, that which is causing me so much stress!

Thanks again,

All the best,

Tom.