# Manipulating Movies

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/manipulating-movies/171022>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [December 1, 2005, 10:36am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/manipulating-movies/171022 "2005-12-01T10:36:57Z")\
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**Author:** ![ice987](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/779978/32.png) [@ice987](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/ice987)\
**Post date:** [December 1, 2005, 10:36am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/manipulating-movies/171022/1 "2005-12-01T10:36:57Z")

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If you create a movie clip and embed a textfield within it, can you then adjust the alpha of the movieclip in order to change the text display.

The code below attempts this but does not work…any suggestions?

clip = createEmptyMovieClip(“clip1”, 2);  
clip.createTextField(“my\_txt”, 1, 300, 20, 60, 60);  
with (clip) {  
my\_txt.multiline = true;  
my\_txt.wordWrap = true;  
var my\_fmt:TextFormat = new TextFormat();  
my\_fmt.color = 0xFF0000;  
my\_fmt.underline = true;  
my\_txt.text = “Text.”;  
my\_txt.setTextFormat(my\_fmt);}

clip.\_alpha=0;