createEmptyMovieClip and createMask

programming flash
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Hello,

I am a nubbie to Flash, but am slowing learning on my own and am need of some HELP!!! I need to get this thing working soon and have been working on it for a few days!!!

I created an image gallery in Flash CS3 almost exactly the same to the following tutorial… [COLOR=Blue]http://www.oman3d.com/tutorials/flash/imagegallery/[/COLOR]

I need help trying to figure out how to make a mask for this gallery; I plan on importing this swf of the image gallery to another FLA file. Currently i tried importing this swf to the other FLA file, using loadMovie() and all thumbnails can be seen in a scrollable row without being masked.

This is the current script I am trying to use for the mask of the image gallery. It is embedded with the other script for the image gallery. It seems to be right to me but I can’t figure out why nothing is being shown:sen:.

[COLOR=Blue][COLOR=Black]Code:[/COLOR]
function createMask() {

_root.createEmptyMovieClip("mask_mc",_root.getNextHighestDepth());

mask_mc._x = _root.myThumb_mc._x;
mask_mc._y = _root.myThumb_mc._y;

mask_mc.beginFill(0x000000,100);
mask_mc.lineTo(_root.myThumb_mc._width,0);
mask_mc.lineTo(_root.myThumb_mc._width,_root.myThumb_mc._width);
mask_mc.lineTo(0,_root.myThumb_mc._width);
mask_mc.lineTo(0,0);

container.setMask(mask_mc);

}

function scrolling() {
_root.onEnterFrame = function() {

    container._x += Math.cos(((mask_mc._ymouse)/mask_mc._width)*Math.PI)*10;

    if (container._x>mask_mc._x) {
        container._x = mask_mc._x;
    }

    if (container._x<(mask_mc._x-(container._width-mask_mc._width))) {
        container._x = mask_mc._x-(container._width-mask_mc._width);
    }

};

}[/COLOR]