# Button, movie clip

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/button-movie-clip/93500>\
**Category:** Uncategorized\
**Created:** [October 31, 2003, 7:56pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/button-movie-clip/93500 "2003-10-31T19:56:34Z")\
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**Author:** ![synix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dbc845/32.png) [@synix](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/synix)\
**Post date:** [October 31, 2003, 7:56pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/button-movie-clip/93500/1 "2003-10-31T19:56:34Z")

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im making a button. on the over i want a lighting flash to slide by from left to right… i have it all done well but i want to button area to be a box around the text and when i make the box it shows through the box too, not only the text, and i cant seem to make transparent boxes for some reason. maybe i need to add them after i covnert to button, iuno. any1 help?