RE: FLASH: Masks with text boxes?

[Paul Willoughby]

Paul wrote


>But it works fine when I tell flash to play the movie clip, it's just when 

>it exports it as a swf.  Any ideas?


I've been playing around with this as it's an effect I like using as it

always works fine! I don't break the text apart or convert it to a symbol,

but you could do both and it still works. The only other thing is that maybe

you're using a text field as a mask, rather than a regular text box? This

gives the impression it is working in the movie sort of, but it don't export

too clever. Select your text and make sure the text field toggle is

unchecked.


If you still have probs, mail me off list and I'll send you a FLA that

works.


Paul




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