To all you flashers out there
I would like to know how this is done http://www.visualflux.com the mouseovers. I believe that it is done with masking but I tried and could not achieve this. Could someone please help me out.
Thanks in advance.
Yeah, I think it’s a mask too. It may be more difficult than I think it looks, but here’s my summary:
-There are black and white images in the background.
-A new layer is made on top of these images.
-The new layer contains a large rectangular button with a movie clip inside it.
-The movie clip contains a mask that is controlled by the “x” position of the user’s cursor.
-The mc mask reveals the “coloured” images.
-Notice that although the black and white images move; they are at exactly the same place each time your mouse moves over a certain position. (The same can be said about the coloured images.
Hope this helps!
Thanks for the help…it did make things a little clear but could you help me with the code as to how it is made coz i tried making an mc and masking it but then the mask is not draggable and hence i am a little confused as to how it is done. I am still trying some ways but have been quite unsuccessful.
Thanks for the help all the same.
dragging masks is impossible, you have to use the fake drag mask technique,
click here . 
DMX,
Thank you very much…it was the very tutotial i was looking for and it helped immensely…
Don’t they have something similar in the tutoraisl section, except the images are blurred, then unblurred when the mask is over it.
which tutorial would u be referring to…coz i did look but may not have been in the right section…could you pls send me the link to the tutorial.
Thanks for all the help
http://www.kirupa.com/developer/actionscript/scriptable_masks.htm
that should be it