I’m building an e-card type of interface which consists of one main flash movie, let’s say 600w x 400h and on it will sit two loaded (smaller) movies. One movie is the e-card selector containing a sliding row of buttons and the other will be a sample of the e-card you’ve chosen to view. The sample e-card will appear on stage at say 300w x 200h.
Everything is working perfectly with one small exception. When the sample e-card loads, the movie does not seem to be getting cropped off at it’s publishing size of 300w x 200h. Instead, the loaded movie is allowing the viewer to see any and all of the “off-stage” elements before they appear within the boundries of the 300w x 200h loaded movie clip. So for example, if my e-card interface was to have it’s loaded “selector” movie clip on the left side of the stage and the sample e-card loads on the right side of the stage, but within a loaded e-card movie clip, I have a circle that is to enter the e-card’s stage from “off-stage” left, while the circle does eventually appear, I can see it coming as it rolls it’s way through the loaded “selector” movie clip on it’s left.
I’ve tried using some masks and attempted to set the loaded e-card movie clip’s stage size using actionscript and either I’m writing the code wrong or it just doesn’t work.
So, why doesn’t a loaded movie clip simply appear at it’s published size, omitting anything that appears off stage?
Any thoughts?
Thanks.
