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    Intermediate Game Dev pseudobot's Avatar
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    [F8] Background color

    Is it possible to change the background color of a flash application using actionscript? The thing is, I have made a game with quiet a lot of menus/submenus, and when you enter a specific cheat-code, it changes the cursor to yellow.

    So, is it possible to change the default background color using actionscript?
    Thanks in advance!

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    Jack Foster cabbar's Avatar
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    best practice would be to create a small MovieClip on the Stage,
    something like 10x10
    and set its x and y = 0;
    and give it an instance name of bg_mc
    then you can script it to change the colour to the width and heigh of the stage.


    firt create a function to set the bg_mc colour, in this case its black.

    function bgChange(toThisColour) {
    var colour = new Color(bg_mc);
    colour.setRGB(toThisColour);
    bg_mc._width = Stage.width;
    bg_mc._height = Stage.height;
    }
    bgChange(0x000000);

    then use your buttons to change the colour

    b1.onRelease = function() {
    bgChange(0xff0000);
    };
    b2.onRelease = function() {
    bgChange(0x00ff00);
    };
    b3.onRelease = function() {
    bgChange(0x0000ff);
    };

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    Jack Foster cabbar's Avatar
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    here is the fla for it, it may be use for others too...
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    ^I understand that that works, but what Im interested in is changing the Default color of the stage, and not use a movie clip. Im pretty shure there's a variable for it, right?

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    Oh, and thanks for the help too, cabbar!

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    without using an mc, no.
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