# \[fmx\]text effect

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/fmx-text-effect/18586
**Category:** flash
**Created:** [April 18, 2003, 10:05am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/fmx-text-effect/18586 "2003-04-18T10:05:29Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author: ![virusdoder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/f4b2a3/32.png) [@virusdoder](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/virusdoder)
#### Post date: [April 18, 2003, 10:05am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/fmx-text-effect/18586/1 "2003-04-18T10:05:29Z")

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hy,

my englisch is not so good, sry there for!

i will create an effect like this:

```
        virusdoder
   v i r u s d od e r 

```

v i r u s d o d e r

it must by horizontally

can sombody help me?

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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: [April 18, 2003, 10:14am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/fmx-text-effect/18586/2 "2003-04-18T10:14:03Z")

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Sorry my friend. You will have to try to ask the question again in more detail. It doesn’t make any sense yet.

What is your native language?  
I might be able to find someone who speaks that.

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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: [April 18, 2003, 10:21am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/fmx-text-effect/18586/3 "2003-04-18T10:21:30Z")

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dutch

well, the distance between the characters must be bigger. so first the will stand with for ex. 0 cm, than 0.5, 1, 1.5 …

it must be horizantoly, i mean, the letter must go to right and left.  
i hope that you understand know a little bit better?

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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: [April 18, 2003, 10:28am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/fmx-text-effect/18586/4 "2003-04-18T10:28:42Z")

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cant you just selct the text and use the a/v slider to make futher apart/ closer together

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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: [April 18, 2003, 10:29am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/fmx-text-effect/18586/5 "2003-04-18T10:29:29Z")

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Do you want it tweeened, or done with code?

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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: [April 18, 2003, 10:31am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/fmx-text-effect/18586/6 "2003-04-18T10:31:33Z")

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maybe it’s stupid, but can you say the both, then i learn a little bit

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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: [April 18, 2003, 10:32am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/fmx-text-effect/18586/7 "2003-04-18T10:32:39Z")

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Chiser99,

if i do that, then must i do it for a few frames and i thought that there was something in AS to do that

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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: [April 18, 2003, 10:34am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/fmx-text-effect/18586/8 "2003-04-18T10:34:06Z")

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oh so you’re looking for something coded right? i’ll try but i might nto be able to get it. :-\

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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: [April 18, 2003, 10:38am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/fmx-text-effect/18586/9 "2003-04-18T10:38:51Z")

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sorry, i don’t have much clue actually :-\ I don’t know what code i’d use :-\

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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: [April 18, 2003, 10:39am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/fmx-text-effect/18586/10 "2003-04-18T10:39:39Z")

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and, whith tweening?  
is that easier?

i know you can make this effect frame by frame, but that’s not i like to do it

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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: [April 18, 2003, 10:48am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/fmx-text-effect/18586/11 "2003-04-18T10:48:21Z")

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yea, thats tweening. Not frame by frame, but sorta. It doesn’t take that long though if its something simple like that 🙂 Unless you want it to go on forever

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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: [April 18, 2003, 10:57am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/fmx-text-effect/18586/12 "2003-04-18T10:57:31Z")

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but how do i do that, i have tried, but it doesn’t work.

p.s  
my english: is it a little bit good or not?

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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: [April 18, 2003, 11:32am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/fmx-text-effect/18586/13 "2003-04-18T11:32:51Z")

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its understandable, so thats fine 🙂

anyways, on frame 1, choose type your text.

then on frame 5 of the same layer, add a keyframe, and choose how you would like the text to be changed. So here you would add spaces and stuff.

then between frames 1 and 5, right click and choose ‘create tween motion’. Thats it. If it doesn’t work tell me 🙂

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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: [April 18, 2003, 11:40am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/fmx-text-effect/18586/14 "2003-04-18T11:40:45Z")

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i have try it, but it doesn’t work.

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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: [April 18, 2003, 1:00pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/fmx-text-effect/18586/15 "2003-04-18T13:00:39Z")

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something like this? :-\

```auto
createText = function(str, dmax) {
	var i, d;
	for (i=0; i<str.length; i++) {
		this.createEmptyMovieClip("char"+i, i);
		this["char"+i]._x = this["char"+(i-1)]._x+this["char"+(i-1)]._width;
		this["char"+i].createTextField("charField", 0, 0, 0, 0, 0);
		this["char"+i].charField.text = str.charAt(i);
		this["char"+i].charField.autoSize = true;
		this.onEnterFrame = function() {
			if (d<dmax) {
				for (i=0; i<str.length; i++) {
					this["char"+i]._x = this["char"+(i-1)]._x+this["char"+(i-1)]._width+d;
				}
				d++;
			} else {
				delete this.onEnterFrame;
			}
		};
	}
};
this.createText("virusdoder", 20);

```

if so, i guess i could try to explain it and work more on it to make it easier. 😛

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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: [April 18, 2003, 1:03pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/fmx-text-effect/18586/16 "2003-04-18T13:03:59Z")

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Well, Kax beat me to it, but I couldn’t resist posting my attempt as well:

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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: [April 18, 2003, 1:07pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/fmx-text-effect/18586/17 "2003-04-18T13:07:45Z")

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euh,

i will test it, but i think that i don’t understand it, but i will do myne best

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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: [April 18, 2003, 1:10pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/fmx-text-effect/18586/18 "2003-04-18T13:10:14Z")

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that’s ok

p.s. Virusdoder, in het Nederlands is wat mij betreft ook ok. 😉

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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: [April 18, 2003, 1:11pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/fmx-text-effect/18586/19 "2003-04-18T13:11:18Z")

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Flashmatazz,

thank you very well! that is what i’m looking for.  
but i have one question.

now the characters are going to the right,  
is it also possible to right en left the same?

thank you again

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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: [April 18, 2003, 1:12pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/fmx-text-effect/18586/20 "2003-04-18T13:12:58Z")

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had het ni gezien, ja, mijn engels is niet zo goed, ik weet het.

je bent bedankt

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