[help] Animating text in lua

[LearningLua]

hello everyone

i was just wondering how i would go about adding text effects in lua, not serious big huge things, just little things like flashing text or text moving across the screen.

i would also like to know how to have something say "hello world" then it fade out and new text appears in its place, so basically i want to be able to have text appear, dissapear after say 3 seconds, and then new text appear permanently.

so basically.

making text appear/dissapear after a certain amount of time
make text move
make text flash

thank you

i have looked on google but cant seem to find anything so i decided to post here.

i made a hello world today and ran it, it worked fine.
so thought i might slowly start making better things and eventually homebrew

[silvalite5]

ok i figured out how to do all that but i have a problem still.

when i use the

screen:clear()

it is supposed to clear the screen right?

well, the psp seems to not notice the command and all my text that was supposed to disappear just blobs up on the screen all ugly

EDIT: Yes that is me i just forgot my password so im silly


HELP ME PLEASE!