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I am trying to copy some some text from the parent movie to a loaded in child in AS2/flash8, but for some reason it won't copy transparent even though the copyied bitmap is? Ideas??? Both should be on the same domain I am testing locally, it seems to work if I just copy into a child movie that was created in the parent rather than loaded and then created in.

	// method: copyToBitmap
	// 		used for copying a movie to a bitmapdata object
	private function copyToBitmapWithTransparency( mc : MovieClip ): BitmapData
	{
			
		var bitmap 				= 	new BitmapData( mc._width+4, mc._height, true, 0x00000000 );
		bitmap.draw( mc );
		var rectangle:Rectangle	= 	new Rectangle( 0 , 0, mc._width+4, mc._height );
		bitmap.copyPixels( bitmap, rectangle, rectangle, bitmap, bitmap, false ); 
	
		return bitmap
			
	}

	// left generic so pass parameters in
	private function copyMc( from: MovieClip, to: MovieClip ):Void
	{
		
		var bitmap = copyToBitmapWithTransparency( from );
		to.attachBitmap( bitmap, to.getNextHighestDepth() ,"auto", true );


	}

well i don't understand this line: "bitmap.attachBitmap(_mc)", but i think your last parameter on the copypixels should be true. haven't tested the code, but check if that makes a difference.

Sorry I have removed that line above I was testing something and left it in.
The copyPixel thing I noticed the false thing, i think it is ok because I am using the image as a mask for its transparency, but either way it works fine when copied in the host movie.

for instance in this code if I change _scope to _root the copy code works fine.

	private function makeHolder( x: Number, y: Number ):Void
	{
		//_scope.cacheAsBitmap = true;
 		var d: Number 	= _scope.getNextHighestDepth();
		_mc 			= _scope.createEmptyMovieClip('_mc' + _scope._name + d , d );
		_mc._x 			= x;
		_mc._y 			= y;
	
	}

I fixed it, I was placing it off the side of my tile so it was not anything to do with the bitmapData copying.