# Transform a color on a movieclip (text in it really)

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**Created:** [April 17, 2008, 7:38pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/transform-a-color-on-a-movieclip-text-in-it-really/257867 "2008-04-17T19:38:14Z")\
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**Author:** ![natronp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/87869e/32.png) [@natronp](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/natronp)\
**Post date:** [April 17, 2008, 7:38pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/transform-a-color-on-a-movieclip-text-in-it-really/257867/1 "2008-04-17T19:38:14Z")

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can anyone point me to a code snippet or documentation on transforming the color of a dynamic text box within a movieclip at runtime?

at this stage I’m assuming i’m targeting FP8.