# Text problem

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/text-problem/285073>\
**Category:** Uncategorized\
**Created:** [March 26, 2009, 6:47pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/text-problem/285073 "2009-03-26T18:47:19Z")\
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**Author:** ![andriusain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e5b9ba/32.png) [@andriusain](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/andriusain)\
**Post date:** [March 26, 2009, 6:47pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/text-problem/285073/1 "2009-03-26T18:47:19Z")

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Hello all. I have a small problem here and I cannot figure it out for much that I look elsewhere so your help here would be great. I have some text fields inside movieClips that act as buttons. I have some functionality added on mouse over, a color tint is made over the movieClip. I wonder why when I do mouse over the text becomes thinner and uglier.

The code here:

```php
package {

    import flash.display.MovieClip;
    import flash.text.TextField;
    import flash.text.*;
    import gs.*;
    import flash.events.MouseEvent;

    public class Menu extends MovieClip {

        private var t1:TextField=new TextField ;
        private var t2:TextField=new TextField ;
        private var t3:TextField=new TextField ;
        private var t4:TextField=new TextField ;

        private var m1:MovieClip=new MovieClip ;
        private var m2:MovieClip=new MovieClip ;
        private var m3:MovieClip=new MovieClip ;
        private var m4:MovieClip=new MovieClip ;
        var currentButton:MovieClip=null;

        var texts:Array=new Array(t1,t2,t3,t4);
        var movies:Array=new Array(m1,m2,m3,m4);

        public function Menu() {

            var myFormatt:TextFormat = new TextFormat();
            myFormatt.size=12;
            myFormatt.align="center";
            myFormatt.color=0xFFFFFF;
            myFormatt.font="Arial";

            t1.text="PORTFOLIO";
            t2.text="INFO";
            t3.text="NOTICIAS";
            t4.text="CONTACTO";

            for (var i:int = 0; i<4; i++) {
                texts*.setTextFormat(myFormatt);

                addChild(movies*);
                movies*.addChild(texts*);
                texts*.selectable=false;
                texts*.height=20;
                movies*.height=20;

                movies*.buttonMode=true;
                movies*.mouseChildren=false;
                movies*.width=texts*.textWidth+20;
                movies[0].x=275;
                if (i>0) {
                    movies*.x = (movies[i-1].x + movies[i-1].width + 20 );
                }
                movies*.y=375;
                movies*.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_OVER, over);
                movies*.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_OUT, out);
            }

            function over(evt:MouseEvent):void {
                currentButton=MovieClip(evt.currentTarget);
                TweenFilterLite.to(currentButton, 1, {colorMatrixFilter:{colorize:0x0098ff, amount:0.3, brightness:1.1}});

            }

            function out(evt:MouseEvent):void {
                currentButton=MovieClip(evt.currentTarget);
                TweenFilterLite.to(currentButton, 0.5, {colorMatrixFilter:{amount:0}});
            }

        }

    }

}

```

As always thank you for your support!

Andres.