# I want a button to activate the sight of a Text box, and I dno how because im stupid

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**Created:** [December 15, 2003, 9:06pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/i-want-a-button-to-activate-the-sight-of-a-text-box-and-i-dno-how-because-im-stupid/96952 "2003-12-15T21:06:11Z")\
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**Author:** ![certainshade](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e68b1a/32.png) [@certainshade](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/certainshade)\
**Post date:** [December 15, 2003, 9:06pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/i-want-a-button-to-activate-the-sight-of-a-text-box-and-i-dno-how-because-im-stupid/96952/1 "2003-12-15T21:06:11Z")

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Guys, The .fla that im talking about is downloadable off this and I think its helpful to see what Im talking about.

There are some buttons down the left in a menu bar, the actual button being the coloured square behind the text. Anyway, there is a dark green area in the centre of the field, and when the button is pressed, I want to fade in some text into that area. But, when I press a different button, then I want to be able to load some different text in the same area. I know this is probably simple, but im not action script fluent and I couldn’t find anything about activating texts in the forums. Not being picky, but is it possible to do it with static text?

Please help,  
Jonny.

(The buttons I am talking about are in folder ‘Side Bar’, and prieviewing the page will come up with errors because there are sounds and text commands that arent there.)

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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:** [December 15, 2003, 9:53pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/i-want-a-button-to-activate-the-sight-of-a-text-box-and-i-dno-how-because-im-stupid/96952/2 "2003-12-15T21:53:30Z")

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[http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx/multiple\_dynamictext.htm](http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx/multiple_dynamictext.htm)