# \_visible vs. \_alpha create emptyMC

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/-visible-vs--alpha-create-emptymc/44314
**Category:** flash
**Created:** [March 2, 2004, 8:17pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/-visible-vs--alpha-create-emptymc/44314 "2004-03-02T20:17:14Z")
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### Author: ![lunatic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/73ab20/32.png) [@lunatic](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/lunatic)
#### Post date: [March 2, 2004, 8:17pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/-visible-vs--alpha-create-emptymc/44314/1 "2004-03-02T20:17:14Z")

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Okay this makes absolutely no sense to me.

On my main timeline I have created an empty MC, then I load an external swf into it:  
[AS]  
this.createEmptyMovieClip(“textBox”, 5);  
textBox.loadMovie(“textbox.swf”);  
[/AS]

For some reason this doesn’t work:  
[AS]  
this.textBox.\_visible = false; // or ‘0’ for that matter  
[/AS]

but THIS does! :hair:  
[AS]  
this.textBox.\_alpha = 0;  
[/AS]

Can someone explain why this is so? :h:

Thanks! :bu: