(Cannot) Masking multi objects, please help!

programming flash
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Hello,
I’m encountering this weird problem:

// first, I set the mask to movie1_mc
movie1_mc.mask = mask_mc; // mask works well

// but when I set the mask to movie2_mc:
movie2_mc.mask = mask_mc;
// ok, movie2_mc got the mask, but movie1_mc lost the mask.

So can the mask be applied to ONE object only? I don’t think so as we still can masking multi object on the timeline :pa:

Then, how to masking multi object by code? Please help! :jail:

2

Is there anything preventing you from sticking the objects into a container sprite or movieclip? In AS3 it doesn’t affect your pathing, really, so you can just add them in there and it’s pretty much good to go.

3

well, thanks for the answer, the only way to do that is putting objects into a container then mask the container, I’ll try this way.