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Bill,

What is the exact value your setColor value traces? Have you maybe
forgotten the 0x prefix?


David
stiller (at) quip (dot) net

I'm having trouble setting a movie clip's color from the data as parsed from an
external XML file. This is my code inside the XML.onLoad function:

//retrieve the value from the XML file and assign it to setColor
setColor = this.firstChild.childNodes[1].childNodes[0]
//set the RGB for the movieclip
myColor_color = new Color(myClip_mc);
myColor_color.setRGB(setColor);

The XML file is being read in correctly and my variable setColor does trace
correctly, but the movie clip is shaded black when I test the movie. Any and
help help would be greatly appreciated.

Bill

And don't forget: variables from xml tend to enter Flash as a string, while the value for a color should be a number; so you'd have
to do some conversion: color = Number(yourstring)

John

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