RE: FLASH: question on masking text

[Bill James]

Here's a workaround:


Make a big box the same colour as your background, and put it on either side

of the "scrolling" text. It should be "on top" of your scrolling text

fields, but "below" everything else. Make sure to make the box very big, so

that no matter how far the user scrolls, they won't see the text fields

peeping out at the side of their screen.


-- Bill James

billjamesgang [dot] com

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Steven

Sent: July 28, 2000 5:12 PM

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Subject: FLASH: question on masking text



I've seen it done, and I know that I've masked text before, but I've read

you can't mask a text field.  Lately, when I've tried, the text doesn't show

up.  I'm trying to get text to only appear inside a certain region, where it

"appears" to scroll, ala ticker method.  Has anyone had this problem before,

and is there a way around it?  Thanks.


-Steve



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