# Typewriter/fade in/out effect

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/typewriter-fade-in-out-effect/130472>\
**Category:** Uncategorized\
**Created:** [December 5, 2004, 2:21pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/typewriter-fade-in-out-effect/130472 "2004-12-05T14:21:49Z")\
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**Author:** ![T\_O](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/cc9497/32.png) [@T\_O](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/T_O)\
**Post date:** [December 5, 2004, 2:21pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/typewriter-fade-in-out-effect/130472/1 "2004-12-05T14:21:49Z")

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hey guyz!

I’m doing a movie in flash but I need to have a cool typewriter effect in actionskript to keep down the kbs. 🙂

The effect is as it goes.

t  
te  
tex  
text

then with each letter fading in seprately. then after 1 second fading out again 🙂

I’ve been searching google [actionskript.org](http://actionskript.org) kirupa like crazy. really couldn’t find anything. Please help me out. 🙂