# AS3 Text Animation

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/as3-text-animation/259402>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [May 4, 2008, 10:11pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/as3-text-animation/259402 "2008-05-04T22:11:35Z")\
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**Author:** ![steinerwarrior](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9de053/32.png) [@steinerwarrior](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/steinerwarrior)\
**Post date:** [May 4, 2008, 10:11pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/as3-text-animation/259402/1 "2008-05-04T22:11:35Z")

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Hey,  
In this tutorial about as1 text animation they make use of duplicateMovieclip() for duplicating the char-movieclip, but in as3 this doesn’t exist anymore!

[http://www.kirupa.com/developer/actionscript/ascript\_text\_animation.htm](http://www.kirupa.com/forum/../developer/actionscript/ascript_text_animation.htm)

Does anyone know how you must right the code for as3?

greetz stijn