Gradient Mask on 1 level deep

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Hey everyone,

I have the gradient mask working in Flash 8 using the following AS:

clip.cacheAsBitmap = true;
mask.cacheAsBitmap = true;
clip.setMask(“mask”);

However, this code does not work when I put it inside a movie clip. It only works if it is in the root (scene 1). I have tried giving my Movie clip an instance name of test and doing the following and it still doesn’t work:

_root.test.clip.cacheAsBitmap = true;
mask.cacheAsBitmap = true;
_root.test.clip.setMask(“mask”);

*The instance name “test” would be the movie clip where I have the mask and the clip to be masked placed.

Any ideas how I can resolve this?

Thanks you!!!