# Animation on opening application

**URL:** https://forums.fusetools.com/t/animation-on-opening-application/3695
**Category:** How-to Discussions
**Created:** [January 18, 2016, 12:26am UTC](https://forums.fusetools.com/t/animation-on-opening-application/3695 "2016-01-18T00:26:24Z")
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### Author: ![tom3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bc8723/32.png) [@tom3](https://forums.fusetools.com/u/tom3)
#### Post date: [January 18, 2016, 12:26am UTC](https://forums.fusetools.com/t/animation-on-opening-application/3695/1 "2016-01-18T00:26:24Z")

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I’ve been trying to figure this out for some time, and not really getting anywhere.

Currently, I can get some text to fade in, but cannot get it to fade back out no matter what I do. How am I supposed to go about this?

When the application opens and the panel becomes visible, I’d like some text to fade in, and fade back out a second or so later.

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### Author: ![Remi\_Pedersen](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/forums.fusetools.com/remi_pedersen/32/432_2.png) [@Remi\_Pedersen](https://forums.fusetools.com/u/Remi_Pedersen)
#### Post date: [January 18, 2016, 11:03am UTC](https://forums.fusetools.com/t/animation-on-opening-application/3695/2 "2016-01-18T11:03:20Z")

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The easiest approach here is probably [keyframes](https://www.fusetools.com/learn/fuse#keyframe-keyframes).

```auto
        <Text Name="txt" Opacity="0">This is text</Text>

        <WhileActive>
            <Change Target="txt.Opacity">
                <Keyframe Value="1" TimeDelta="1"/>
                <Keyframe Value="0" TimeDelta="1"/>
            </Change>
        </WhileActive>

```

You might of course want to use some other trigger, such as `<ActivatingAnimation>`, to make it fit your use case.