Masked text

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Hi.

I’m having a problem with masked text in Flash animation. I have a dynamic text field (lets say the name of that field is DTF) on the main timeline which is masked and when I send data to the text field using the client it works fine, but if I try to change that text in the external AS3 class (for example add a number at the end of the text - DTF.text += “3”; ) nothing happens. Without the mask, everything works normally, but with the mask, anything that I apply in the external class just doesn’t affect the DTF.

Any suggestions how I can work this around?

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Can you upload it somewhere?

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Sure. Here’s the link.

https://we.tl/t-lm0keXFHBh

4

You have to address the text by it’s full path
eg. teks1mc.tekst1.text += “3”

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I did. Text Field seems to be inaccessible from the AS3 Class when masked.

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Did you try to apply the mask from your class?
Convert both to movieclips and apply the mask

text_mc.mask = mask_mc;

Then set the number at the end

text_mc.DTF.appendText(“3”);
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The problem is that the mask is a rectangle that changes its size in every frame. I’ve tried creating a movie clip on the main timeline and using it as a mask, but it didn’t work. I don’t know how to do that from the class.

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You should create a rectangle and change its size with a tween.
Also it’s a good practice to set both the masked movie clip and the mask as cached bitmap

_clip.cacheAsBitmap = true;
_mask.cacheAsBitmap = true;
_clip.mask = _mask;
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That‘s not true, I do that every day. I downloaded your files, but did not get a clue, what is wrong. But probably you should try with a rectangle and use a motion tween to animate it, so that it is a single object changing over time.

And by the way: It‘s a simple wipe, that can be done by moving a rectangle from outside the stage and back, I have no idea, why you want to do it as complicate as possible.

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Motion tween did the job. Thank you for your help.