Re: FLASH: Draggable masks, etc

[Darren Critchley]

Helen Triolo wrote:


> 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


Look further down the html page, and there is a link that says right click to

save as. I uploaded the fla, and put it a link to it for people to grab and

take it apart.


Ahh, this explains alot, especially the fact that I had to move the

background in the opposite direction to the way the mouse was moving.


Darren.




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