# I need help

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/i-need-help/11522
**Category:** Uncategorized
**Created:** [January 18, 2003, 2:18pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/i-need-help/11522 "2003-01-18T14:18:38Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author: ![lairusi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ac91a4/32.png) [@lairusi](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/lairusi)
#### Post date: [January 18, 2003, 2:18pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/i-need-help/11522/1 "2003-01-18T14:18:38Z")

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Hello everyone! I’m going to need your help again in doing some effect in Flash. Can anyone make an effect on text that looks like somone is writing the text?

Thanks in advance. (-:

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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: [January 18, 2003, 2:36pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/i-need-help/11522/2 "2003-01-18T14:36:06Z")

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text = “what ever goes here”;  
myTextField.wordWrap = true  
this.onEnterFrame = function() {  
myTextField.text = text.substr(0, count);  
count += 2;  
};

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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: [January 18, 2003, 2:46pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/i-need-help/11522/3 "2003-01-18T14:46:11Z")

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Thanks for the quick reply! =)

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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: [January 18, 2003, 2:49pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/i-need-help/11522/4 "2003-01-18T14:49:08Z")

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i just added myTextField.word…so you won’t have trouble setting it manually, i also can provide a better solution using setinterval, but i don’t have time to do that now.