Hi,

The problem is as follows;

I have a movie clip which pulls data from an xml document. When i use the file
using a mask, the data is not visible. Has anyone else encountered such a
problem and found a solution.

if you have found one or have any idea, i would be grateful if you could share
it with me.

Thanks in Advance!!!

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I have had this problem in the past. I have found the solution is to mask with
ActionScript instead of in the IDE. So don't use the mask feature on the
layers, put actionscript in your timeline that says:
dataclip.setMask(maskclip). You must make sure your data is inside a movieclip
and your mask is a movieclip too. Good luck!

Hi Pilipo,

I am a novice at Flash, so could you plz provide an example of some sort. i will be very grateful.

Thanks in advance for your help and prompt reply.

You can see an example at
http://www.kalalau.org/mmforums/maskingwactionscript.zip . It has examples of
masking on the timeline and masking w/ActionScript. You'll see that masking on
the timeline does not work for dynamic data fields. Happy Application
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