# Fade dynamic textbox (alpha)

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/fade-dynamic-textbox-alpha/120244>\
**Category:** Uncategorized\
**Created:** [August 22, 2004, 1:36pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/fade-dynamic-textbox-alpha/120244 "2004-08-22T13:36:40Z")\
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**Author:** ![fightalone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/22d042/32.png) [@fightalone](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/fightalone)\
**Post date:** [August 22, 2004, 1:36pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/fade-dynamic-textbox-alpha/120244/1 "2004-08-22T13:36:40Z")

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ok… i’ve searched the board and found several threads on this issue, but somehow i couldnt find an answer to my problem though…

i want to fade a dynamic textbox which contains “News”… anyway…

the news.swf is loaded into a MC… but… as a matter of fact i dont want to fade the whole movie clip…

so… how to fade a textbox… i cant do it the same way i usually fad buttons… with simply tweening the alpha value… cuz there is no alpha value change option with the textbox…

any solutions??..

thx in advance…

yours sincerly

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**Author:** ![murka390](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c37758/32.png) [@murka390](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/murka390)\
**Post date:** [August 22, 2004, 1:46pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/fade-dynamic-textbox-alpha/120244/2 "2004-08-22T13:46:04Z")

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make a movie clip from the dynamic textbox, and then you can “alpha” that movie clip 😉 (with AS or like You do the buttons)

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**Author:** ![stringy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/919ad9/32.png) [@stringy](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/stringy)\
**Post date:** [August 22, 2004, 1:51pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/fade-dynamic-textbox-alpha/120244/3 "2004-08-22T13:51:18Z")

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> [@fightalone](#):
>
> ok… i’ve searched the board and found several threads on this issue, but somehow i couldnt find an answer to my problem though…
> 
> i want to fade a dynamic textbox which contains “News”… anyway…
> 
> the news.swf is loaded into a MC… but… as a matter of fact i dont want to fade the whole movie clip…
> 
> so… how to fade a textbox… i cant do it the same way i usually fad buttons… with simply tweening the alpha value… cuz there is no alpha value change option with the textbox…
> 
> any solutions??..
> 
> thx in advance…
> 
> yours sincerly

textfield instance name myText  
After it has loaded into your Mc(i called container)

container.myText.text = “whatever”;  
function fade() {  
container.myText.\_alpha -= 1;  
if (container.myText.\_alpha\<=0) {  
clearInterval(myInterval);  
}  
}  
myInterval = setInterval(fade, 50);

EDIT/don`t forget to embed font outlines

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**Author:** ![fightalone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/22d042/32.png) [@fightalone](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/fightalone)\
**Post date:** [August 22, 2004, 2:14pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/fade-dynamic-textbox-alpha/120244/4 "2004-08-22T14:14:59Z")

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thx folks…