ATL on text with a frame/border? [solved]

[Belgerum]

Is there an easy way to have a stretchable frame or border around text moving in ATL?

I'm looking for a small notification like those in the game "Long Live The Queen" that look like this: http://www.dadsgamingaddiction.com/wp-c ... -46-42.jpg

In the game, the text bubbles fade in and fade out, while moving upwards the entire time.

I want to make a similar effect, and I can use the below ATL code to do so, but there seems to be no way I find I can wrap a frame, border, or outline around the text, to make it stand out from the background, while still making it move like such, and not adding the same effect to all of the text in the game. =/

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show text "{b}Displayed Text{/b}":
    alpha 1.0 xalign 0.5 yalign 0.5
    linear 1.5 yalign 0.0 alpha -1.0

[namastaii]

Could you achieve the same thing using a textbutton? Or imagebutton? Just change that text into a button

[Belgerum]

As much as I'm not sure why I had to resort to it, making a textbutton with no function fixes my problems. Huh.

[namastaii]

Haha XD

[philat]

I don't know exactly what you're doing with the button, so if you have a working solution, there's probably no need to bother changing it, but why wouldn't you just use a frame like you asked?

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transform fadeup:
    alpha 1.0 xalign 0.5 yalign 0.5
    linear 1.5 yalign 0.0 alpha -1.0

screen popup(text):
    frame:
        #specify the properties of the frame, like background, size, etc.
        at fadeup
        text text
    timer 1.5 action Hide("popup")

label start:
    e "You've created a new Ren'Py game."
    show screen popup("Displayed Text")
    e "Once you add a story, pictures, and music, you can release it to the world!"