Textbox briefly appearing before centered built-in Character

[RicharDann]

I have noticed that the first time the centered Character is used, the textbox appears below the text and quickly dissappears.

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label start:
    scene living_room with dissolve
    
    #show a centered text, the window briefly flashes below
    centered "Some centered text"
    
    # here it doesn't happen anymore, I guess because the background is already set to None
    centered "Some more centered text"

It seems to happen only when the background property needs to change from the default textbox to transparent (None).

Is there a way I can avoid this? I'm aware I could use show text but I want to take advantage of cps speed.

[isobellesophia]

What if you put the

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window show dissolve
centered "Some text"
window hide dissolve

[RicharDann]

What if you put the

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window show dissolve
centered "Some text"
window hide dissolve

That dissolves the image in and out, but what I need in this case is for the textbox to not appear in the first place.
However, this made me realize I can just:

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window hide
centered "Some text"

This appears to fix the issue, I would have to type that extra line of code everytime but it's ok, I won't need to use centered that often.
Thanks for the help!