[Flash 8] Dynamic Movieclips with Dynamic Movie Clips : Help

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Hello, is there a way to:

  1. create an empty movieclip (zone1)
  2. create a movieclip in zone1 (zone1.contentMC)
  3. create an empty mask movieclip in zone1 (zone1.maskMC)
  4. draw a filled rectangle into zone1.maskMC
  5. set the zone1.maskMC as the mask for zone1.contentMC
  6. load content at any time into zone1.contentMC

I just spent 15 minutes putting together a post only to have it say I was not logged in (session timeout I guess)… lost the post data on backspace. Here is the code I’m working with… as you can see with the comments I’ve been at this for a while. I want to iterate through zone array… setup empty movies… then a contents and mask movie inside each movie, draw a rectangle in the mask movie and then set the mask before I put contents into the content MC.

 
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var colorArray:Array = new Array("0xFF0000", "0x0000FF", "0x00FF00");
function drawRec(endX, endY, targetMovie:MovieClip) {
 trace("drawing a mask in "+targetMovie+" with "+endX+", "+endY);
 rndColor = Math.round(2*Math.random());
 targetMovie.beginFill(colorArray[rndColor], 100);
 targetMovie.moveTo(0, 0);
 targetMovie.lineTo(endX, 0);
 targetMovie.lineTo(endX, endY);
 targetMovie.lineTo(0, endY);
 targetMovie.lineTo(0, 0);
 targetMovie.endFill();
}
function makeZones() {
 atZone = 0;
 for (zones in zoneArray) {
  // create zone movie
  this.createEmptyMovieClip("zone"+atZone, this.getNextHighestDepth());
  // move new zone to it's correct x and y
  this["zone"+atZone]._x = zoneArray[zones][0];
  this["zone"+atZone]._y = zoneArray[zones][1];
  // create contentMC
  this["zone"+atZone].createEmptyMovieClip("contentMC",1 );
  trace(this["zone"+atZone].contentMC);
  // create Mask
  this["zone"+atZone].createEmptyMovieClip("maskMC", 2);
  trace(this["zone"+atZone].maskMC);
  //draw Mask
  drawRec(zoneArray[zones][2], zoneArray[zones][3], this["zone"+atZone].maskMC);
  contentMC.setMask(maskMC);
  loadMovie("images/0.jpg", contentMC);
  //set the mask for the zones contentMC
  atZone++;
 }
}
var zoneArray:Array = new Array();
zoneArray[0] = (Array(0, 0, 250, 250));
zoneArray[1] = (Array(250, 0, 500, 250));
zoneArray[3] = (Array(0, 250, 500, 500));
//trace(zoneArray[0][0]);
makeZones();