Ok folks.. This didn't go down as planned, but you can sort of join Milo in a technological journey of live streaming during his baptism (in fact, the priest didn't confiscate my cell phone!). Flash player required (but you probably have it).

Above, there should be a video player, and you should see either Milo's baptism in action or a splash title screen. If you see something completely random, then the streaming/playing service has a hiccup (but you can easily visit the archives in the provided thumbnails at the end of the clip-- hopefully they're my shows and not another user's again!! :))

In Flash 8, I had a movieclip "artwork" that I wanted to mask with another movieclip "mcdots" from actionscript. The typical syntax is:

mcMaskee.setMask(mcMask);
// or in my case:
artwork.setMask(mcdots);

The trouble is when I dynamically load the movie "maskdots," something weird happens, and the mask won't work:

maskdots.loadMovie("dots.swf");
artwork.setMask(mcdots);

The movie loads as expected, but the dots simply overlay rather than mask.

The solution was to delay or separate the process of loading the mask and applying it. To avoid a messy load checkstate routine, I simply used a basic enclosure called from a setTimeout (years of javascript taught me that):