# Crazy exploding Flash Fills

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/crazy-exploding-flash-fills/6517>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [October 9, 2002, 3:26pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/crazy-exploding-flash-fills/6517 "2002-10-09T15:26:40Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![urbanscrawl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/9fc348/32.png) [@urbanscrawl](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/urbanscrawl)\
**Post date:** [October 9, 2002, 3:26pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/crazy-exploding-flash-fills/6517/1 "2002-10-09T15:26:40Z")

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This happens to me a lot - I type some stuff and I want to give it a shadow, so I break it apart, copy it and attempt to enlarge the copy by expand filling (modify-shape-expand fill) and only by one pixel. It then expands some of it and screws up the rest. What was ‘artists portfolios’ is instead a slightly larger 'art.;‘s p0r,./-ios’ - is this just flash 5 showing its age?

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [October 9, 2002, 7:14pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/crazy-exploding-flash-fills/6517/2 "2002-10-09T19:14:58Z")

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and can someone confirm that masks do not work with scrolling text boxes - potentially I thought because the text only exists inside the actionscript… whatever - it ain’t working.

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [October 10, 2002, 3:06pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/crazy-exploding-flash-fills/6517/3 "2002-10-10T15:06:04Z")

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Come on guys - masks and scrolling text boxes - are they mutually exclusive??