Masking a round movie clip

Hi everyone,
I'm learning loads in my first few days of using flex and
actionscript 3, however, I am stuck and need some help.
As of now I have a rotating disc that rotates on click of a
start button. What I need is a mask that shows the disc as a semi
circle at the bottom of the page but allows the circle, while
spinning, to have the top half of the disc visible.
I have looked into masking in flex but can't quite grasp how
they will be implemented into my example.
Any help would be massively appreciated
Thank you
Michael Wilson

The only way to mask movies is to lay an image over top of it that has transparency. This is how the photo cutout slides work. There's a slide sized image sitting on the back of the slide that has a hole punched in it. You can use an app like Photoshop to create one that matches your theme. Hope that helps.

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please see this navigation interface:
http://www.hearightnow/yogamater/
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This is all done in one frame, the scripts do all the animation of the drop menus.
the current code for this menu allows the mouse to travel from the photos to the "yoga" drop menu without triggering the menu to go up, however if the mouse travels from the "yoga" drop menu to the photos, the drop menu locks up until the mouse leaves the photos.
any ideas how this can be fixed? also, how do I apply the script on the invisible clip to all the drop menus?
definitely a newbie to AS3 so all help is greatly appreciated!!
here is the main script:
stop();
addEventListener(Event.ENTER_FRAME,upyoga);
addEventListener(Event.ENTER_FRAME,upteach);
addEventListener(Event.ENTER_FRAME,upsched);
addEventListener(Event.ENTER_FRAME,uppriv);
addEventListener(Event.ENTER_FRAME,upcont);
var speed:Number=.222;
function upyoga(e:Event) {
if ((yoga_menu.mouseY<yoga_menu.height&&yoga_menu.mouseY>0) &&
(yoga_menu.mouseX<80&&yoga_menu.mouseX>0)) {
yoga_menu.y-=(-58+yoga_menu.y)*speed;
} else {
yoga_menu.y-=(-134+yoga_menu.y)*speed;
function upteach(e:Event) {
if ((teach_menu.mouseY<teach_menu.height&&teach_menu.mouseY>0) &&
(teach_menu.mouseX<80&&teach_menu.mouseX>0)) {
teach_menu.y-=(-65+teach_menu.y)*speed;
} else {
teach_menu.y-=(-118+teach_menu.y)*speed;
function upsched(e:Event) {
if ((sched_menu.mouseY<sched_menu.height&&sched_menu.mouseY>0) &&
(sched_menu.mouseX<80&&sched_menu.mouseX>0)) {
sched_menu.y-=(-42+sched_menu.y)*speed;
} else {
sched_menu.y-=(-96+sched_menu.y)*speed;
function uppriv(e:Event) {
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(priv_menu.mouseX<80&&priv_menu.mouseX>0)) {
priv_menu.y-=(-28+priv_menu.y)*speed;
} else {
priv_menu.y-=(-74+priv_menu.y)*speed;
function upcont(e:Event) {
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(cont_menu.mouseX<80&&cont_menu.mouseX>0)) {
cont_menu.y-=(-40+cont_menu.y)*speed;
} else {
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and here is the script on the invisible clip:
invisiClip.addEventListener(MouseEvent.ROLL_OVER, invisClipOver);
invisiClip.addEventListener(MouseEvent.ROLL_OVER, menuBack);
invisiClip.addEventListener(MouseEvent.ROLL_OUT, invisClipOut);
function invisClipOver(event:MouseEvent):void {
removeEventListener(Event.ENTER_FRAME,upyoga)
function menuBack(e:Event) {
yoga_menu.y-=(-134+yoga_menu.y)*speed;
function invisClipOut(event:MouseEvent):void {
addEventListener(Event.ENTER_FRAME,upyoga)

I was having trouble attaching a zip or fla to this post so they can be retrieved at
http://www.hearightnow.com/yogamater/menu_45b.zip
or
http://www.hearightnow.com/yogamater/menu_45b.fla
the "menu" layer contains the mask that the drop menus hide behind
the "invis" layer contains the invisible movie clip that has the code that removes and adds the event listeners that move the "yoga" drop menu
the photos seen at http://www.hearightnow.com/yogamater/ are added with HTML DIV tags.
thanks!

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I've created a movie clip with a mask that I'm using in a
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The really strange thing is that it was working, but suddenly
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scenes are nothing more than the main timeline divided.
Nothing different from one scene to the
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me like you simply dont have the mask
and masked layers locked in that scene.
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dkmiles wrote:
> I've created a movie clip with a mask that I'm using in
a main scene. The mask
> looks fine while editing/working the movie clip, but
does not show up in the
> scene.
>
> The really strange thing is that it was working, but
suddenly now it won't
> show up in the scene any longer. I've tried replacing
it, making a new layer
> and bringing it in again. But nothing works.
>
> Does anyone have an idea of why this would be?
>
> Any help GREATLY appreciated!
>
> dm
>

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on the same frame? also you should note that the code posted above
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target like this:
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:)

Luxury Mince Pie wrote:
> I'm trying to use a movie clip as a mask layer. The
movie clip contains both
> lines and fills. The fill areas are working perfectly
but the lines are
> appearing all weird and streaked (it's actually quite
cool looking but not what
> I'm ideally after). The masked layer is just a block of
plain colour fill. Has
> anyone had the same problem as me and if so is there a
work around? Do lines
> and fills need to be on seperate layers or something?
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> I seem to remember reading something about declaring
movie clips as mask
> layers using actionscript but I've searched and found
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> My problem is probably that I really don't know wath
event
> handler I should use...
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... because "map_window_mc" is in quotes. Yes, the
ActionScript Language
Reference says the parameter of setMask() may be a string,
but leave the
quotes out and see what happens. In any case,
David
stiller (at) quip (dot) net
Dev essays:
http://www.quip.net/blog/
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