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Subject:	Re: FLASH: Draggable masks, etc
From:	Helen Triolo
Date:	Sat, 8 Jul 2000 18:16:13 +0100

Darren,

What a great example. Re your moving-the-mask question, you can't drag
a mask because it's treated as a graphic and you can't do things to it
that you would do with a movieclip (I think, based on Matt W and others'
posts and the mm technote at
http://www.macromedia.com/support/flash/ts/documents/mcmask.htm ).
Looking thru back posts, people always recommend moving the content
since you can't drag a mask. Will you post a fla for the example? It's
really nicely done.

Helen
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Darren Critchley wrote:
>
> I was playing with the concept, after seeing the car that could be
> xrayed at the Lexus site a couple of weeks ago, and came up with my own
> xray concept.
>
> I used the tutorial from flashkit (I think) that shows a magnifying
> glass moving over a page and showing the letters magnified. I have the
> thing working, but I don't understand why certain things work.
>
> What I wanted to do was have a mask layer, and move the actual mask
> object around on that layer, based on the location of the magnifying
> glass on top. However this didn't work. In their example and in the one
> I have created, you have to move the masked picture around, and I don't
> understand why, can anyone help top explain this?
>
> And I believe that the graphics I used to create this concept test,
> belong to someone on this list, I was SWFBrowsing through my netscape
> cache and found the picture of the car and the x-ray."NOTE To that
> person, I am using your graphics just for educational purposes and not
> for any sort of commercial gain"
>
> The Xray car can be found at:
>
> http://www.aurorainformationsystems.com/flashtest/dragtest.html

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