# Masking not working

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/masking-not-working/254224>\
**Category:** Uncategorized\
**Created:** [March 9, 2008, 9:28pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/masking-not-working/254224 "2008-03-09T21:28:03Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 1\
**Page:** 1

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Dawn0fDusk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Dawn0fDusk](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Dawn0fDusk)\
**Post date:** [March 9, 2008, 9:28pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/masking-not-working/254224/1 "2008-03-09T21:28:03Z")

</div>

I followed a tutorial and its not working at all…  
I even followed the tutorial on kirupa (mask scripting)

[http://www.kirupa.com/developer/actionscript/scriptable\_masks.htm](http://www.kirupa.com/developer/actionscript/scriptable_masks.htm)

Here’s my copy of the one I made ina .fla, Can’t see the problem with it… (Syntax is fine)

[SIZE=1][SIZE=2][http://h1.ripway.com/JoesCrabShak/masking.fla[/SIZE]](http://h1.ripway.com/JoesCrabShak/masking.fla%5B/SIZE%5D) [/SIZE]  
[SIZE=1][/SIZE]  
The only problem I see is that the “hole” isn’t working… dunno why though (I’ve compared them to eachother for nearly an hour. Sadly…