# Okay another question..... :( **URL:** \ **Category:** Uncategorized\ **Created:** [February 17, 2003, 11:26am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/okay-another-question/13726 "2003-02-17T11:26:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![sWo0p](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f0a364/32.png) [@sWo0p](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/sWo0p)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2003, 11:26am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/okay-another-question/13726/1 "2003-02-17T11:26:25Z")
I had lots off help forum ppl here so i think it’s best to lay this problem infront of you guys to… 🙂 okay here goes: i have a movie clip (buttonbar) that slides horizon… this movieclip movie with action script… the goal is to schield a smal part of this movieclip so it looks like it goes onder a part of the menu… see image)… only thing is, a mask does’nt work couse i gees the action puts it ontop of everything els and a .gif image as overlay does’nt eighter ☹ how do i do this??? this is the goal -\>\> [http://picserver.student.utwente.nl/getpicture.php?id=59701](http://picserver.student.utwente.nl/getpicture.php?id=59701) and this is what happens nomatter what ☹ [http://213.46.24.167/menut\_otterke.swf](http://213.46.24.167/menut_otterke.swf) ---
**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:** [February 17, 2003, 11:53am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/okay-another-question/13726/2 "2003-02-17T11:53:18Z")
I think I know what you are trying to do: If you want the white shape to go over the infinite menu, try to put it into a layer over the mask of the menu layer. The mask will only mask what is below it - from what I have learned… See if that helps. (-: ---
**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:** [February 17, 2003, 12:00pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/okay-another-question/13726/3 "2003-02-17T12:00:42Z")
One more thing…sorry. Use the mask in the masking layer to cover what you want to show - not what you want to hide. I’ve always had a problem with masks because it’s opposite. You mask everything that you don’t want to show on the layers below by putting a shape over the stuff that you do want to show. After that masking layer, your just adding stuff on top. That’s the way I try to understand masks…sorry if I made it worse. It’s tuff.(-: ---
**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:** [February 17, 2003, 12:27pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/okay-another-question/13726/4 "2003-02-17T12:27:31Z")
no… no… i understand what yuh trying tosay, but i tried that already ☹ this does’nt work… i made a mask (the right way) but it does not work over the movieclip… ☹ it showsup under it… i think it’s couse of the actionscript… but i’ll keep fiddeling anyway… 🙂 thx… PS, i know its already bin don but what doe you think of my menu so far 🙂 … it’s not ready yet… sound and effects have to be added…