December 2002
Intermediate to advanced
1088 pages
192h 4m
English
Content preview from ActionScript for Flash MX: The Definitive Guide, Second Edition
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MovieClip.startDrag() Method
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• Lines cannot be used as masks. Use fills, not lines, in mask movie clips. Lines can be
turned into fills via Modify
➝ Shape ➝ Convert Lines to Fills.
• The setMask() method cannot assign more than one clip to be masked by a single
mask movie clip. To apply an identical mask to several clips, duplicate the original
mask movie clip as often as needed, or use an author-time mask, which can be applied
to multiple movie clips simultaneously.
• In Flash 6, fully contained holes in shapes inside movie clips are not reflected by
masks. For example, it is impossible to create a doughnut-shaped mask using a movie
clip (the doughnut’s hole will be filled, and the mask will simply be a solid circle).
However, an author-time primitive shape in a mask layer can be used to create mask
shapes with fully contained holes. The beginFill() method can also be used at runtime
to draw a shape with a hole that functions properly as a mask.
See Also
MovieClip.beginFill()
MovieClip.startDrag() Method
make a movie or movie clip follow the mouse
Flash 5
mc.startDrag()
mc.startDrag(lockCenter)
mc.startDrag(lockCenter, left, top, right, bottom )
Arguments
lockCenter A Boolean indicating whether the registration point of mc should be centered
under the mouse ...
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