need help with masking text

[Nia]

hi

I want to use a rectangle shape as mask and tween the text of out it --disappear once leave the shape. but the thing is the text is not masked properly: as the text leave the mask area I can still see the faint text. Does anyone know how I can fix that? by the way it's dynamic text with font embeded.


thanks.

[CJElven]

I'm not having any problems with it. Did you make sure to put your dynamic text field inside another symbol before you tween it?

[EQFlash]

First create a movieclip from your text block and give it an instance name. example "mc". place it on the stage
second, on a the frame of the movieclip, call the value of the text block.
i.e.

mc.text = "whatever" //where text is the variable assigned to the textblock.
then mask it the way you want.
If needed I could send you a fla illustrating this.

[Nia]

thank you both very much for the suggestions. I think I got it figured out though..it's because I'm using pixel fonts and when tweened they are not perfectly aligned with integer coords.