# Dynamic text displaying alpha?

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/dynamic-text-displaying-alpha/287641>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [May 4, 2009, 4:45pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/dynamic-text-displaying-alpha/287641 "2009-05-04T16:45:42Z")\
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**Author:** ![Amymation](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bc8723/32.png) [@Amymation](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Amymation)\
**Post date:** [May 4, 2009, 4:45pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/dynamic-text-displaying-alpha/287641/1 "2009-05-04T16:45:42Z")

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I’ve been making a game in ActionScript 2.0 Flash CS3. Now I want to be able to display my characters alpha using dynamic text. The _instance_ name for the character is **char** and the _Var_ for the dynamic text is **alpha**.  
I want to be able to display the characters alpha and ALSO the characters current alpha in other leves for example.

Variable for lives in level 1:  
\_root.lives = 5;

Variable for lives in level 2:  
\_root.currentlives = lives;

I want to be able to do the exact thing but display the ‘char’ alpha instead.