V. Real problem

[mattaustin]

Please could someone verify this.
You can set the variable for a dynamic text box in a movie clip that is on a masked layer, cos the debugger will tell you that it is set.
But it won't display!
of this I am sure

[mattaustin]

Originally posted by mattaustin
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[elitemedia]

Same here, looks like a bug/undocumented feature to me!!

[randum]

This could fall under the category of "You can't dynamically update a mask".

I wonder why not. Is it a bug or a shortcoming in the feature list? A response from Macromedia would be greatly appreciated. And maybe next release of Flash will allow masks to be moved along a motion guide as well. Thx.

[sonwah]

this is a well documented shortcoming of flash, you can't mask dynamic text 8(

[RexBoner]

What a drag though

[sonwah]

that is you can't mask unsmoothed text - if you choose to save to font outlines, you can see the dynamic text masked
8)