Problem with masking and dupe'ing Mc's

[mindfriction]

Hi, I dont know if anyone else has had this problem but it seems when ever I place a clip in the main time line (list_Mc) (which contains script for clip duplication and dynamic text loading) and add a mask over it in the layer above all the dynamic text boxes disappear, and the duplication script which use duplicateMovieClip() function fails.


Any idea why this is happening!? I mean I want to use the mask to make a scroller to scroll the list_Mc, using a simple function increasing and decreasing the _y coordinate of list_Mc behind the mask.

Please help

[alotan]

when u use duplicatmovie, u duplicate it to a higher level, that means that it will always be above the mask level and that means u cann't use mask for that

[mindfriction]

ok, I thought that may be the problem :P
Basically i duplicate rectangular shaped Mc's vertically one after the other. These rectangular Mc's have dynamic txt boxes, which are also populated dynamically. So, essentially in short the duped Mc's are labelled list items, and I want to make it so that I can scroll them. What would you do?

Any help wouiild be muchly appreciated

[alotan]

make a function that will move everything together

like

function move(place){
movi1._x=place
movi2._x=place
movi3._x=place
movi4._x=place
movi5._x=place
etc....