Re: FLASH: OT: Non-rectangular multimedia: D7!

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On 1999.11.10 at 21.24, len harrison <

lenhgeocities [dot] com

> wrote:


> Now here is one thing you can do with Director 7, though it's currently

> undocumented. Create a one-bit mask of any shape and a MIAW (Movie in a

> Window). Your MIAW can be set to only show pixels whose mask bit is set. You

> can have masks of any size, including discontinuous masks such as objects

> with holes or islands in them. You can switch masks realtime, too! And,

> yeah, it's crossplatform, at least as far as Mac and PC's go. No alpha

> channel on the mask at this time, however.


I've just "plopped" onto this thread, so please forgive any repetition.


Can't this all be done within Flash, alone?


Q: It's certainly possible, within Flash *alone*, to create a "viewer" mask (a

top layer) that overlays any particular Flash movie that one has created, in

order to modify the total viewing area *into* "something less than" the "width x

height" parameters would allow.


Nicht wahr?


Ken Sherwood


kensherwood.com

http://www.kensherwood.com





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