Help me with this effect

[Wayra Condor]

In the game I'm making I'm using a matial art system similar to the ones on "mortal kombat", and I'm trying to make that effect with no result, this is what happens:
I'm trying the following secuense: when certain button is pressed the martial art title go down out of the view and then returns from bellow but with a diferent name, for this I tried this code:

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if (martial_art_act1==0)//martial_art_act1 is a variable for this
{
    CreateTimer("Event Actor", "tiempo_de_canje", 1000);//tiempo_de_canje is the time it takes on the action
}

if (martial_art_act1==1)
{
    CreateTimer("Event Actor", "tiempo_de_canje2", 1000);//same a tiempo_de_canje
 
}
 

And I'm putting on timers:

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p1_artemarcial.yvelocity=p1_artemarcial.yvelocity+10;//p1_artemarcial is the text name actor for this
 
p1_artemarcial_b.yvelocity=p1_artemarcial_b.yvelocity+10;//same here

martial_art_act1=1;

In tiempo_de_canje2:

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strcpy(p1_artemarcial.text, "CHOLITZU");
 
strcpy(p1_artemarcial_b.text, "CHOLITZU");

p1_artemarcial.yvelocity=p1_artemarcial.yvelocity-10;

p1_artemarcial_b.yvelocity=p1_artemarcial_b.yvelocity-10;

martial_art_act1=0;

Also I add a collision state with frame in order to make those texts stay in a certain range:

For some odd reason (or maybe because I still don't master GE) this code don't work, what happens is that pass some seconds when nothing happens and later the text go down and never return.

I hope you guys can solve my trouble because I don't know what to do.
Thanks

[edh]

Try this example...

ChangeText.zip

Change text offscreen.

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Click the text. It will float up out of sight, change it's text and float back down, resting somewhere near where it started.