# Glow filter not working?

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/glow-filter-not-working/262571
**Category:** Uncategorized
**Created:** [June 7, 2008, 4:11am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/glow-filter-not-working/262571 "2008-06-07T04:11:28Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author: ![rondog](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/rondog/32/2478_2.png) [@rondog](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/rondog)
#### Post date: [June 7, 2008, 4:11am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/glow-filter-not-working/262571/1 "2008-06-07T04:11:28Z")

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I have a movie clip, I hit the filter tab and applied a glow. I can see it on my stage, but once I compile the filter isnt on it. any idea why??

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### Author: ![johnlouis](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/johnlouis/32/568_2.png) [@johnlouis](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/johnlouis)
#### Post date: [June 7, 2008, 9:24am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/glow-filter-not-working/262571/2 "2008-06-07T09:24:09Z")

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are you doing anything to the movieclip in actionscript? maybe it’s something in your code…

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### Author: ![rondog](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/rondog/32/2478_2.png) [@rondog](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/rondog)
#### Post date: [June 7, 2008, 10:18am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/glow-filter-not-working/262571/3 "2008-06-07T10:18:54Z")

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> [@johnlouis;2338495](#):
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> are you doing anything to the movieclip in actionscript? maybe it’s something in your code…

Yea its a footer so I have it changing its scaleX to match the width of the stage:

```auto

function onResize(e:Event):void
{
    footer.y = stage.stageHeight - footer.height;
    footer.scaleX = stage.stageWidth;
}

```

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### Author: ![Alex\_Lexcuk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/919ad9/32.png) [@Alex\_Lexcuk](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Alex_Lexcuk)
#### Post date: [June 7, 2008, 8:06pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/glow-filter-not-working/262571/4 "2008-06-07T20:06:38Z")

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This filter better all works  
[http://dnadillo.dn.ua/fla/text-Glow-filter.swf](http://dnadillo.dn.ua/fla/text-Glow-filter.swf)  
[http://dnadillo.dn.ua/fla/text-Glow-filter.zip](http://dnadillo.dn.ua/fla/text-Glow-filter.zip)