SetMask problems

Hi people little help needed if anyone can. I have one container movie clip which holds other movie clips called from xml. this content is scrollable and is masked using container.setMask(masker);

Inside the other movieclips i have images which i want to mask but image.setMask(masker); wont work. And there not the same masks there on the same level as tehre being referenced from

I swear i read something bout this b4 that you can’t setMask within itself that it only applies to the top layer.

Is this true and does anyone have any work arounds???

Thanks

You cant name 2 objects the same, is that what you have? Youre saying you have different masks called ‘masker’ on the same level, which is impossible. The AS will only pick one of them as the real ‘masker’

Give them different instance names, that might do the trick. Also, place the mask and the images in the same level. If the image holder is in _level0.container, then so must be the mask.

They are on different levels like this

masker
-container
-content
-2nd masker
-image

Hope this is clearer the masker is set to container. Inside container is content and inside this is the image which i’m trying to set another mask to but it wont take to it even if i apply a mask on the layers it shows up in flash but once i export the swf it shows both the mask and the image.

when image is loaded set mask…

when image is loaded set mask…

+1 forgot to say that

Makes Sense, I’ll give it a bash. Thanks guys or girls which ever the case maybe!

No joy!