# Text effect

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/text-effect/266598>\
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**Created:** [July 22, 2008, 3:41pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/text-effect/266598 "2008-07-22T15:41:34Z")\
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**Author:** ![olivercoquelin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/919ad9/32.png) [@olivercoquelin](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/olivercoquelin)\
**Post date:** [July 22, 2008, 3:41pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/text-effect/266598/1 "2008-07-22T15:41:34Z")

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I am trying to create a simple text effect whereby a screen swipe makes the text gracefully slide into view when moving to a new frame.

I have attempted to do this by creating a movie clip called text-swipe-mc which is a grey square, the same colour as the background, and giving it a shape tween along the time line so that it collapses from a square into a line. I added an actionscript stop command to the last frame in the movie clip. I put this movie clip over the text on each frame.

It seems to work on some of the frames sometimes but is inconsistent:

[http://www.holtconstructionltd.co.uk/dev/](http://www.holtconstructionltd.co.uk/dev/)

Is there a better way for me to do this? Any advice greatly appreciated.