# Effect of Text writing itself

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/effect-of-text-writing-itself/33977>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [October 26, 2003, 7:54am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/effect-of-text-writing-itself/33977 "2003-10-26T07:54:18Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![eventide82](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9fc348/32.png) [@eventide82](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/eventide82)\
**Post date:** [October 26, 2003, 7:54am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/effect-of-text-writing-itself/33977/1 "2003-10-26T07:54:18Z")

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Does anyone know how I can create the effect of text writing itself? Or can someone recommend a site that explains it in a way that a not very advanced Flash user would understand? Thanks.

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [October 26, 2003, 10:18am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/effect-of-text-writing-itself/33977/2 "2003-10-26T10:18:11Z")

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A program called Swish might help you.

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [October 26, 2003, 3:18pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/effect-of-text-writing-itself/33977/3 "2003-10-26T15:18:31Z")

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you can do the easiest thing possible. Type out your text then move a mask over top of it so it reveals one letter at a time.

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [October 26, 2003, 3:55pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/effect-of-text-writing-itself/33977/4 "2003-10-26T15:55:05Z")

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welcome to the forums  
take a look at this  
[typewriter](http://www.kirupaforum.com/forums/search.php?s=&action=showresults&searchid=180337&sortby=lastpost&sortorder=descending)

scotty;)

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [October 26, 2003, 8:05pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/effect-of-text-writing-itself/33977/5 "2003-10-26T20:05:13Z")

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

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [October 27, 2003, 12:33am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/effect-of-text-writing-itself/33977/6 "2003-10-27T00:33:11Z")

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Okay, thanks for the advice, but I still can’t get it to work. The typewriter post doesn’t specify which action category to put the script into and the above link seems to be different to my version of Flash.