# Basic Alpha

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/basic-alpha/56281>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [July 2, 2004, 8:04am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/basic-alpha/56281 "2004-07-02T08:04:43Z")\
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**Author:** ![Goth\_Santa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/46a35a/32.png) [@Goth\_Santa](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Goth_Santa)\
**Post date:** [July 2, 2004, 8:04am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/basic-alpha/56281/1 "2004-07-02T08:04:43Z")

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I can’t for the life of me figure out what’s going on. I’ve got a movie clip I’m trying to make temporarily invisible. I’ve tried a bunch of different things to do this:

\*\*  
onClipEvent (load) {  
this.\_alpha = 0;  
}  
\*\*

I’ve also tried putting similar code in the frame its on. I’ve also tried setting the alpha via Flash itself (rather than actionscript), as demonstrated [in this tutorial](http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx/alpha.htm). None of it works. I’m using Flash MX version 6. This is so basic, you’d think I’d be able to do this. Am I missing something?