flash actionscript: Hi, jbobbins,

You can certainly adjust color programmatically using Actionscript.

Go buy Joey Lott's ActionScript Cookbook, it discusses all of this in
excellent detail.
Alternately, look on actionscript.org, there are tutorials that will tell
you how to manage this.

-KF


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changing the alpha is easy, because there is a _alpha as object, but
there is no _tint as object, so it's more complicated.
You need to attach a color object to the MC you want to afffect:

color1 = new Color(_root.mcInstanceName);

Then you can chanmge its color with the action setRGB:

color1.setRGB(0xFF9999);

This will change your "mcInstanceName" MC color from whatever the
original, to the hexadecimal FF9999.
Since there is not one single value that defines a color, but rather a
combination of 6 values (FF9999), I don't think you can programatically
make a gradual color change, i.e. like a tween between red and green,
unless some code genius can prove me wrong.



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