Flash :: Setting The Color Of Multiple MCs Using One Color Object

Color Mask? Or Setting Color Of A PNG Bitmap?
I made a movie clip of a sequence of outer glow effects in PhotoShop to give the effect of a pulsating halo. I made the clip seperate from the beveled graphic it surounds so I could mask it. I want to have it pulsating between colors as it expands and contracts. I made the halo white, not anticipating that there would be any great difficulty in masking or changing its color.

So my question is, how do you make a color mask? I can only seem to get alpha masks, it completely ignores the color of the masks I make and lets through all colors, no matter the color of the mask.

Or alternately, is there a why to alter the color of all the pixels in a PNG bitmap, so that the varying transparancy/alpha of different pixels is preserved but the color is uniformly changed?

Multiple Clips On A Single Color Object? [F8]
Hey all,

Is there a easy way to assign multiple clips to the same color object, so that when I "setRGB" they all change?
It seems like there should be an easy way to do this but I'm stuck on the syntax.

Thanks
Shoeshine

Change Color For More Mcs With Color Object At A Time
This changes color of one mc:

Code:
myColor = new Color(myMovie);
myColor.setRGB(0x993366);

Is there a way if I have dozen of mcs to change color at a time for all this mcs?

Thank you

[F8] Color Swatch Or Change - Color Object?
You know how on retail sites or even a car site you can swap the color by clicking on the swatch and than the image changes the color. I wanted to do this in flash preferably with actionscripting but I have NO CLUE how to do it. Can anyone show me a tutorial or advise me o how to do this. This is just a BASIC example in flash five but this is the same concept I want. http://www.adobe.com/support/flash/i...y/colorobject/ If anyone knows of a high level example with tutorial I would appreciate it.

Turtle

Change Color For More Mcs With Color Object At A Time
This changes color of one mc:

Code:
myColor = new Color(myMovie);
myColor.setRGB(0x993366);
Is there a way if I have dozen of mcs to change color at a time for all this mcs?

Thank you

Change Color For More Mcs With Color Object At A Time
This changes color of one mc:
Code:

myColor = new Color(myMovie);
myColor.setRGB(0x993366);

Is there a way if I have dozen of mcs to change color at a time for all this mcs?

Thank you

Hex Color As Variable In Color Object?
im trying to do this

myColor = new Color(myMC);

myColor.setRGB(variable);

we have all of the colors we need in css info in a database but im attempting to use the same values in flash. i can load the variables in fine but when i try to set them as a hex color it just assumes the letters are hex colors.

any suggestions

Background Color With Color Object?
Hey guys, quick question, is there a way to control the background color of a flash movie using the color object or some other way? i would like the entire window (html background included) to change, so sticking a stage-size movieclip in the back wouldn't help. Thanks .

Color Object- Get Color Name?
Hello,

I made a color picker and I was wondering if the color object had any way of grabbing the actual color name?

I know I could put all the colors into an array and call them up as needed... I've done the same thing in C#... and the color object in C# has a color name feature, I was wondering if Flash's color object had the same deal.

-Ryan

Setting A New Color
Hi, I´m doing some simple games, exactly one of painting some figures. I´m looking for the way to make some squares with different colours and when you click inside and drag to the mc you want to paint, it turns to the colour of the previous mc. I know it must be whit setRGB and hitTest, but I don´t know how, could anyone please help me? Or telling me where´s a good web with .fla examples. Thank u.

Color Setting
Can anyone tell me why this only fades once and won't fade again.
I think it is to do with Math.abs

Code:
MovieClip.prototype.fadeColor = function(cto, e) {
var myColor = new Color(this), cColor = myColor.getTransform();
this.onEnterFrame = function() {
for (var c in cColor) {
cColor[c] += (cto[c]-cColor[c])/e;
}
if (Math.abs(cto[c]-cColor[c])<0.4) {
delete this.onEnterFrame;
trace("DELETED");
}
myColor.setTransform(cColor);
};
};
Button code

Code:
home_btn.onRelease = function() {
bg.fadeColor({rb:0, gb:0, bb:0, ab:255}, 10);
};
about_btn.onRelease = function() {
bg.fadeColor({rb:110, gb:187, bb:31, ab:255}, 10);
};
If you start with clicking Home it should fade down to black then when you click about us it should fade back up to the orignal green color again.
It's been deleted before it gets to fade back to the orignal green again.

Setting Color Variables...
Hello,

Is there a way for me to set a variable for color? I have a swf file with a variable. I am loading the data externally for the variable text field. The text field has a color applied to it in the Flash App itself through the text options palette.

Can I define the color for the dynamic text through a variable. If so, how do I set it up(in Flash as well as the external file)?

Thanks in advance!

Vince

Setting Box Color On Click
im trying to write some very simple for school and can not figure out one problem. i have two boxes named...

OriginalColor & SelectedColor

When the OriginalColor box is clicked it should set the SelectedColor box to the color of the OriginalColor box. Can someone please help me with the action script of this?

Setting The Background Color....
ok this is a really stupid question but how do you set the background color? plz tell me.
Thankies
Brenna

Setting Text Color
This actionscript isn't changing the text color on rollover, what am I doing wrong?

code:
button.txt.text = "Back to Gallery";
button.onRollOver =function() {
var rolloverTxt = new TextFormat();
rolloverTxt.color = "0xFFCC00";
this.txt.setNewTextFormat(rolloverTxt);
}

Setting The Color Of A Moviecclip
Hi gang,

I would like to alter the color of a movie clip which now contains a pic. How do I do this? is it setRGB?

Setting Label Color
i am trying to set label color from it's Parameters window. if i set the htmlText property to

Code:
<b>text</b>
Label property to .. "text" .. the final output is BOLD! .. how can i set the color of the LABEL @ design time?

Setting Color Values Example
When looking in the help file in Flash CS3, under "Setting Color Values", they have an example of changing the color of a car. When you click on the paint chip, the car changes to that color, leaving the shadowing and everything else present on the car.

When I run through the tutorial on the screen where it shows you how to set it up, it works but it takes the entire image and changes it a solid color.

How do they just get that color to change on the car and leave the other pixels the same color they were?

Thank you.

Dave

Setting The Background Color With AS
I am looking for the code to set the background colour of a swf at runtime to a specific hex. Is it possible to do this (not with HTML). I am fairly sure I have seen this but can't find the documentation.

By the way, I am not sure about this Adobe Macromedia thing. I sure hope they don't drop the ball. Macromedia has been doing a pretty good job and I wonder if Adobe is really going to 'get' Flash.

scott

Setting Color With Loaded Var
To keep a long story short. I want to change the color of a MC using a hex code loaded from a XML document.

The problem arises when i'm using the loaded data to change the color.

My (relevante) code:

class SmallClip extends MovieClip{

var projectType:String;
var projectName:String;
var projectColor:Number;

function SmallClip(){
var pC:Color = new Color(this["colorType"]);
pC.setRGB(projectColor);
}
}

On the other hand - if i defined the color before loading the XML ex. var projectColor:Number = 0xFFFFFF;, everything turns out fine.

I can trace out the projectColor var before setting it, and it's the data from the XML. So it's loaded at the time when i'm using it.

So is my XML, when loaded, not treated as a Number but as a String?

Thanks in advance

Setting Color/Tint With ActionScript?
I need to set the color of a movieclip to red when a button is pressed, and I need to do this completely with actionscript. I can think of a few ways to do this, but I just wanted to know if there was something like:

this._r = 20;
this._g = 0;
this._b = 0;

or something similar. I need help as soon as possible ^_^

Thanks in advance.

Setting BGground Color W/actionscript
how do i change the background colour using actionscript?
i can't figure out how to refernce the background colour.
also...can i change the color of several moviclips(and the background) all at once using the color object (an array maybe?)

Setting FScrollPane Border Color
I would like to set the Border Color of the Boundingbox of an FScrollPane to white. I tried to set several stylePropertys of the FScrollPane to white, but nothing worked.

Has anyone an idea how I can do that?
I suppose it would work if I take the Movieclip Symbol in the Library for the Box and make it white, but this box is used for other Components as well...

Is there any styleProperty that can set the box to white?

Setting Font Color With Variable
for some reason this will not work for me my app is in adobe flex.

Problem Setting Hover Color
I'm working with an XML-drive menu with a fair amount (for me) of adaptation. Everything is working just fine except for one thing: I can't get the hover color to work when there are no subnodes. I'd be happy for a background rectangle (as specified here), color text change, or hadding a new clip for a pointer. Many thanks in advance. Maybe one of you geniuses can help me with this. Here's the relevant excerpt of the AS:

// item properties assigned from XML
curr_node = node_xml.childNodes[i];
curr_item.action = curr_node.attributes.action;
curr_item.variables = curr_node.attributes.variables;
curr_item.name.text = curr_node.attributes.name;

// item submenu behavior for rollover event
if (node_xml.childNodes[i].nodeName == "menu"){
// open a submenu
curr_item.node_xml = curr_node;
curr_item.onRollOver = curr_item.onDragOver = function(){
var x = this._x + this._width - 5;
var y = this._y + 5;
GenerateMenu(curr_menu, "submenu_mc", x, y, 1000, this.node_xml);
// show a hover color
var col = new Color(this.background);
col.setRGB(0xf4faff);
};
}else{ // nodeName == "item"
curr_item.arrow._visible = false;
// close existing submenu
curr_item.onRollOver = curr_item.onDragOver = function(){
curr_menu.submenu_mc.removeMovieClip();
// show a hover color
var col = new Color(this.background);
col.setRGB({ra:81,rb:0,ga:81,gb:0,ba:81,bb:0});
};
}

Setting The Stage Dimensions And Color
Hi guys
How can i set (Initialize) the Height , Width and background color of the main Stage with action script ?? Is this possible without using the Graphical tools

Setting A Random Background Color
So I was reading through the color tutorials and I couldn't find how to set a random background color(or if you can actually do that).

what i'm doing is I have a set of movie clips with a frame action that randomly selects a color, for the movie clips, out of 10 colors in an array. I wanted to do the same for the background but I don't know how to target the background.

I'm sure there's some easy solution to this that I can't find but any help would be greatly appreciated

Help With Setting Txt Code(color,size)
Here is a the code on found that will animate the text on the screeen as the mouse moves. I am trying to set the size and color of the text,but having no luck. Also I added the code that is on a movieclip called "controller" Please help

text = "I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked,
dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix,
angelheaded hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connection to the starry dynamo in the machinery of night... -- Howl, Ginsberg.";
myTF = new TextFormat;
myTF.font = "Arial";
myTF.size = 20;
myTF.color = 0x663399;
text.setTextFormat(myTF);

//
// How many characters per line max?
// Note that if any word has more characters
// than this limit, the script will crash.
//
charWidth = 50;
// Function to convert text into array with no more than
// charWidth chars in each index.
function parseText (input, lineWidth) {
var text = new Array();
text = input.split(" ");
var lineArray = new Array();
var j = 0;
var total = 0;
for (var k = 0; klineWidth) {
j++;
k--;
total = 0;
continue;
} else {
// Otherwise, add this word to the current index
lineArray[j] += text[k]+" ";
total += text[k].length+1;
}
}
// Remove final space from each index (save on MC duplication)
for (var s = 0; s

code on movieclip

// Row and col start at 0
onClipEvent (load) {
row = 0;
col = 0;
_parent.attachMovie('blank', 'textMC', 20);
_parent.textMC._x = 20;
_parent.textMC._y = 20;
}
onClipEvent (mouseMove) {
letterCount++;
col++;
if (letterCount<=_parent.totalCharsClipped) {
// If we're over the charWidth limit, or we've reached the
// end of this line of text, reset to next line
if (col>_parent.charWidth or col>_parent.text[row].length) {
col = 1;
row++;
}
if (_parent.text[row].charAt(col-1) != "
") {
// If this char isn't a newline char, duplicate an
// MC for it and animate it
_parent.textMC.attachMovie('transform', 'box'+letterCount, letterCount+100);
target = _parent.textMC['box'+letterCount];
target._x = col*8;
target._y = (row+1)*20;
target.letter.letter = _parent.text[row].charAt(col-1);
} else {
// Newline char; reset to start of next line
col = 1;
row++;
}
} else {
// Animation of the text has now finished. You can trigger
// an event here if you wish. Keep in mind that this code will still be
// executed every time the mouse is moved, so you may want to
// remove this MC now...
}
}

[Flash CS3] Setting Color Using ActionScript
i have i movie clip called mc
and i need to change it's color ( i know how to do it in as2 (setRGB) but not in ac3)
could any body help me???

Setting Color Fills For Duplicate MCs
Ready for another question about duplicate MCs?
I was wondering, is there anyway to set the color of duplicate MCs using actionscript?
I used a tut (here) to build a dynamic drop down menu. You can DL my file from here (33kb). This is the last big hurdle for the site I am building. I would really appreciate help in any form!

I've been referencing tuts all afternoon and got a basic understanding of how the code executes. Couldn't write it yet but I can work with it. So, what I've built is 3 mainMenus, each w/ subMenus that will continuely grow as I add more work to the site.
Here's the trickey part, for design purposes each of the mainMenu MCs should be a different color: blue, red, & yellow. Because 2 of the menu clips are duplicating & positioning down the y-axis I can't figure a method to control thier fill color without actionscript... I've seen a whole range of menuMC._x, ._alpha, ._xscale, etc. but never any color related code. . .

Is there a property statement similar a "._color" or a function or somesuch fancy thing?

I also imagine one just not go through the duplicating process and create 3 unique MCs. If I went that method, how would you make the MCs act with the duplicated submenus?

Here is a clip from the AS that deals with the mainMenu MC:

ActionScript Code:
//initialize main menu
for (i=1; i<=_root.total; ++i) {
//duplicate movie clip
menuMC.duplicateMovieClip("menuMC"+i, i);
//set new position
this["menuMC"+i]._y = this["menuMC"+(i-1)]._y+this["menuMC"+(i-1)]._height;
this["menuMC"+i].choice = i;
//change the color of a menuMC (this is a complete guess)
this["menuMC"+1]._color = #ABD7EC
this["menuMC"+2]._color = #ED926B
this["menuMC"+3]._color = #F7EA8B
//create a variable to record the levels of the created MCs
levelTrack = i;
}

These net communities rock.

love,
owen

Setting Color Of Child Mc Stops Animation
Could someone take a look at my fla and please help me?

I'm trying to animate a foot tapping, but I want to be able to dynamically change the color of the foot from a color button... but the color change either won't work at all, or it kills the animation....

What the heck am i doint wrong??? Please help!

Setting Up Strings To Have A Certain Color In A Dynamic Textfield
Either this is really simple and I'm doing the wrong type of search, or it's much harder than I assumed.

I have some characters speaking, and to make it more visually obvious who is saying what, I want to not only have their name, but also have each name have it's own color.

So I might have:
John(in Brown)
Hey, what's happening (in White)

The "spoken" text can be in the default color for that text field, but the name should always be in brown. So I would presume I could have a string with the name in it that can be concatenated to the speech, but how do I handle the color? Do I embed the color Hex somehow?

Thanks in advance!

Setting Color From Loaded Variable In Textfile
I have a text file that set's some color values I would like to use in my flash movie. bascially its a config file for movieclips rollovers(set's the colors)

my textfile reads as follow

Code:
textOut=0x3F6075&baseOut=0xFFFFFF&outLineOut=0xE19C14
My Flash is as follows:

ActionScript Code:
/* loadconfig file */myTest = new LoadVars();myTest.load("button_styles.txt");myTest.onLoad = function(){ trace(this.textOut + newline + this.baseOut + newline + this.outLineOut);}/* function that actually changes the colors */function insideElement(){ myOutline.setRGB(this.outLineOut); myText.setRGB(this.textOut); myBase.setRGB(this.baseOut);}

Now when I trace the values its fine, but when i apply them to my movieclips, it turns black

any ideas? thanks

edit: of course i am calling the function, figured you would assume so,

Setting The BG Color Of A Dynamic Text Area
I'd like to set it to black, with yellow text, but I'm having a heck of a time. Can someone point me in the right direction?

Setting Movie Background Color With Action Script?
is this possible?

tnx

Setting Background Color Window Component (draggable Part)
Hi,
I am trying to set a background color of the Flash8 window component. The backgroundcolor I am referring to is the draggable section (top) of the window.

I've tried

PHP Code:

_global.styles.windowStyles.setStyle("backgroundColor ", "0xFF0000");

But that didnt work.

Anyone an idea?

cheers
Patrick

How To Save Color Mixes In The Panel: Color Mixer? (linear And Radial Colors)
How to save color mixes in the panel: color mixer?, linear and radial colors that is.
Because you can save solid colors, what about saving linear and radial colors

How To Change MovieClip RollOver Color(NOT Single Color, But Gradient) Dynamically ?
hi

I have created this for single color.But how to change when it is a gradient color.
for single color rollover code.

Code:
rollcolor = "0xFF0000";
normalcolor = "0x339900";
my_color = new Color(my_mc);
my_mc.onRollOver = function() {
my_color.setRGB(rollcolor);
};
my_mc.onRollOut = function() {
my_color.setRGB(normalcolor);
};
Thanks in advance

How To Change MovieClip RollOver Color(NOT Single Color, But Gradient) Dynamically ?
hi

I have created this for single color.But how to change when it is a gradient color.
for single color rollover code.

ActionScript Code:
rollcolor = "0xFF0000";
normalcolor = "0x339900";
my_color = new Color(my_mc);
my_mc.onRollOver = function() {
my_color.setRGB(rollcolor);
};
my_mc.onRollOut = function() {
my_color.setRGB(normalcolor);
};
Thanks in advance

Setting The Background Color Of The Selection When Text Selected (input TextField)
My input TextField has a black background. The problem is, when some text is enter and then selected, the selection background color remains black and the selected text remains white. Because of this it's imposible to tell that the text has been selected. Is there a way to change the selection background color, or do I really have to write a custom textfield? :(

Changing Fill Color And Line Color Dynamicly And Seperately
Hi community,

In this case, I am going to load a swf with a looping animation colored in black and white only. I want to change the color of the animation dynamicly so that I could have different color at each time. Here is my code:

Code:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<mx:Application xmlns:mx="http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml" layout="absolute">
<mx:Script>
<![CDATA[
import flash.display.*;
import flash.net.URLRequest;

private function init():void{
myCan.addEventListener(Event.ENTER_FRAME,capMotion);
}
private function capMotion(event:Event):void{
var bmd1:BitmapData = new BitmapData(mySwf.width, mySwf.height, true, 0x00CCCCCC);
bmd1.draw(mySwf);

var bitmap1:Bitmap = new Bitmap(bmd1);
bitmap1.x = 0;
bitmap1.name="org";
if (map.getChildByName("org") != null){
map.removeChild(map.getChildByName("org"));
}
map.addChild(bitmap1);
var bmd2:BitmapData = new BitmapData(mySwf.width, mySwf.height, true, 0xFFFFFFFF);
var pt:Point = new Point(0, 0);
var rect:Rectangle = new Rectangle(0, 0, mySwf.width, mySwf.height);
var threshold:uint = 0xFF999999;
var color:uint = 0xFFFFFF00;
var maskColor:uint = 0x00FF0000;
bmd2.threshold(bmd1, rect, pt, ">=", threshold, color, maskColor, true);

var bmd3:BitmapData = new BitmapData(mySwf.width, mySwf.height, true, 0xFFFFFFFF);
threshold = 0xFF000000;
color = 0xFF00CCCC;
maskColor = 0xFFFFFF00;
bmd3.threshold(bmd2, rect, pt, "==", threshold, color, maskColor, true);

var bitmap2:Bitmap = new Bitmap(bmd3);
bitmap2.name="dup";
bitmap2.x = bitmap1.x + bitmap1.width + 10;
if (map.getChildByName("dup") != null){
map.removeChild(map.getChildByName("dup"));
}
map.addChild(bitmap2);
}
]]>
</mx:Script>
<mx:Canvas id="myCan" x="10" y="10" width="650" height="603">
<mx:SWFLoader id="mySwf" width="100" height="250" horizontalCenter="0" verticalCenter="-7.5" source="dance.swf" complete="init()" scaleContent="false" autoLoad="true"/>
<mx:Image x="61" y="320" width="550" height="152" id="map"/>
</mx:Canvas>
</mx:Application>
It works quite fine but I afraid that it's quite resource consuming using enterframe and bitmap drawing. Is there any better method?
Thanks for help.

How Would I Go Changing Lots Of Movieclips Color And Border Color Seperatly?
I am in the making of a isometric level editor, and I have about 15 movie clips with more to come.
I want to let people change the color of tiles to what they want from a list of colors, so how can I let them change the color of a tile dinamicly with actionscript so that it changes a tile's color while preserving changes of "shadows"?
I mean I have let's say a cube and to make it look 3D I need to change each face to make a feeling of 3D and not a flat one.
thanks.

Color Object How To?
I want to change the the color of a movie clip with actionscript, but i want it to change in increments.
I have been messing with the color objects but i have not used them before so i am no quite sure what i am doing. Could someone tell me how i can go about getting this done.

The Color Object
Got a question.

Do you have any idea how to go back to the original color of an object after having used setRGB(...

For instance I have a red box with a black border.

Using the code below the entire symbol is changed to WHITE, which is desired.
headColor.setRGB(0xFFFFFF);

But if I want to change it back to the red box with the black border, it seems impossible. Picking another setRGB color does not give me the original symbol which was red with a black border, it just paints it all a different color.

How do i return to the default of NO TINT ?

Any clues?

Love to hear your solution here if you have the time.

Jay
mailto:jay@flashbomb.com
http://www.flashbomb.com

The Color Object
Hi:

I have an interface I want to change the color of by changing the alpha and RGB values for an MC (Vector Shape).

The AS reference doesn't give a very detailed explanation of how to do this. The example used is in response to user input through a text field. I just want someone to be able to click on a button and and have the MC change to the color and alpha value I have predetermined.

I believe I need to use the .setRGB() and setTransform() methods of the color object, but I haven't used these before and haven't been successful making this work, thus far.

I have done this using tweening, but then the color jumps from one to the other. If, however, the current color is green, alpha 22%, I want to be able to change it to red, alpha 18%, for example, without going back to the original color first.

Does anyone have a script they'd like to share?

The above will do, but if some could share how to do this over time as well, that'd be even better. For instance, change the color over 50 frames. My movie is currently set to 24fps, and just using onClipEvent(enterFrame) will change the colors too quickly, so that it creates a strain on the eye. I'd like to slow the change down.

Thanks, in advance.

James
He is risen!!!