# Masking News flasher

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/masking-news-flasher/113204>\
**Category:** Uncategorized\
**Created:** [June 15, 2004, 9:37pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/masking-news-flasher/113204 "2004-06-15T21:37:20Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 8\
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**Author:** ![Gupps](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/f19dbf/32.png) [@Gupps](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Gupps)\
**Post date:** [June 15, 2004, 9:37pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/masking-news-flasher/113204/1 "2004-06-15T21:37:20Z")

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hi, I can’t seem to mask the news flasher tutourial. Is it becasue the text is a dynamic textfield and therefore I can’t mask it.

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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:** [June 15, 2004, 10:13pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/masking-news-flasher/113204/2 "2004-06-15T22:13:13Z")

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quote from lunatic:

> textfield.embedFonts = true;

Apparently you have to do that to get dynamic text to be masked.

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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:** [June 16, 2004, 1:09pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/masking-news-flasher/113204/3 "2004-06-16T13:09:04Z")

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Still no luck. do I put the code in the 1st frame of the actions layer and put textfield in the var area. This should be simple but it is driving me crazy.

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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:** [June 16, 2004, 2:49pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/masking-news-flasher/113204/4 "2004-06-16T14:49:46Z")

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Select your textfield, in the propertiespanel click the “character” button and select one of the options;)

scotty(-:

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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:** [June 16, 2004, 4:11pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/masking-news-flasher/113204/5 "2004-06-16T16:11:38Z")

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Thanks scotty, How do I add bold characters to it. Oh, by adding the characters, does that increase the files size.

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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:** [June 16, 2004, 6:22pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/masking-news-flasher/113204/6 "2004-06-16T18:22:00Z")

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For the bold type of the font, make an extra “dummy” textfield with the bold type embedded.  
Embedding fonts will increase your filesize (depending on the font) with about 10-20kB:)

scotty(-:

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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:** [June 16, 2004, 7:10pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/masking-news-flasher/113204/7 "2004-06-16T19:10:12Z")

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thanks again Scotty

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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:** [June 16, 2004, 7:35pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/masking-news-flasher/113204/8 "2004-06-16T19:35:20Z")

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no problem:thumb: