# Animated masking for dynamic text boxes

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/animated-masking-for-dynamic-text-boxes/183582>\
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**Created:** [March 28, 2006, 3:15pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/animated-masking-for-dynamic-text-boxes/183582 "2006-03-28T15:15:48Z")\
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**Author:** ![bhogiyogi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b9e5f3/32.png) [@bhogiyogi](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/bhogiyogi)\
**Post date:** [March 28, 2006, 3:15pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/animated-masking-for-dynamic-text-boxes/183582/1 "2006-03-28T15:15:48Z")

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Hi i have tried using the masking of dynamic text field tutorial but seem to be having problems.

The mask comes as a square. or a rectangle.

Also is it possible to have an animated mask for dynamic text fields. I have gone through a lot of threads and people say they have done it but don’t explain how they achieved it.

thanks

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**Author:** ![JoshuaJonah](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/joshuajonah/32/1775_2.png) [@JoshuaJonah](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/JoshuaJonah)\
**Post date:** [March 28, 2006, 3:27pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/animated-masking-for-dynamic-text-boxes/183582/2 "2006-03-28T15:27:01Z")

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First, when masking dynamic text, remember to embed the font.

Second, if you are using an image with a transaprent background as a mask, the transparent pixels are still there, they’re just transparent

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**Author:** ![calvintage](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/57b2e6/32.png) [@calvintage](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/calvintage)\
**Post date:** [March 28, 2006, 3:28pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/animated-masking-for-dynamic-text-boxes/183582/3 "2006-03-28T15:28:22Z")

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you could make a mask into a MovieClip or just animate it on the scene.

for dynamic text field, you’ll need to embed the chars and uncheck “auto kern”. and it should work.

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**Author:** ![bhogiyogi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b9e5f3/32.png) [@bhogiyogi](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/bhogiyogi)\
**Post date:** [March 28, 2006, 4:00pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/animated-masking-for-dynamic-text-boxes/183582/4 "2006-03-28T16:00:50Z")

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Hi I have done what you have said.

Maybe if you can have alook at my file  
[http://bhogiyogi.com/test/newspage.zip](http://bhogiyogi.com/test/newspage.zip)

You will see there is an animated movie on top of my text field I would like that to be masking the text file.

Thanks

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**Author:** ![Rustyd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e19adc/32.png) [@Rustyd](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Rustyd)\
**Post date:** [March 28, 2006, 5:01pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/animated-masking-for-dynamic-text-boxes/183582/5 "2006-03-28T17:01:26Z")

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I dragged the ‘text’ layer up under Layer 4 and it appears to work just fine. (pretty cool btw) Also, I found a great AS Masking tut in my Flash Samples folder: (C:\Program Files\Macromedia\Flash 8\Samples and Tutorials\Samples\Masking\ScriptableMasksPart2) that may help.

> [@bhogiyogi](#):
>
> Hi I have done what you have said.
> 
> Maybe if you can have alook at my file  
> [http://bhogiyogi.com/test/newspage.zip](http://bhogiyogi.com/test/newspage.zip)
> 
> You will see there is an animated movie on top of my text field I would like that to be masking the text file.
> 
> Thanks

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**Author:** ![bhogiyogi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b9e5f3/32.png) [@bhogiyogi](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/bhogiyogi)\
**Post date:** [March 28, 2006, 8:11pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/animated-masking-for-dynamic-text-boxes/183582/6 "2006-03-28T20:11:43Z")

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Thank you everyone for you reply;

Now I can see the dynamic text being masked,  
but the mask comes upto the whole boundig box (it comes squarish);  
i masked a shape with the same mask it does it properly.

Please have a look at the attachment to see what i mean;  
[http://bhogiyogi.com/test/newspage.zip](http://bhogiyogi.com/test/newspage.zip)

thanks once again

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**Author:** ![bhogiyogi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b9e5f3/32.png) [@bhogiyogi](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/bhogiyogi)\
**Post date:** [March 28, 2006, 8:33pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/animated-masking-for-dynamic-text-boxes/183582/7 "2006-03-28T20:33:24Z")

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> [@bhogiyogi](#):
>
> Thank you everyone for you reply;
> 
> Now I can see the dynamic text being masked,  
> but the mask comes upto the whole boundig box (it comes squarish);  
> i masked a shape with the same mask it does it properly.
> 
> Please have a look at the attachment to see what i mean;
> 
> thanks once again

Sorry the file attched was wrong please download the new file from here  
[http://bhogiyogi.com/test/newspage.zip](http://bhogiyogi.com/test/newspage.zip)