help: Color changing function

[GrimStrike]

Working in AS2 here trying to make a simple function to change the color of an object passed to it. I'm not getting a complier error but it's not working either.

import flash.geom.ColorTransform;

function color_change(color, mc) {
    var colorTrans = new ColorTransform();
    colorTrans.rgb = color;
    mc.colorTransform = colorTrans;
} 

I'm using the function call below:

change_color(0xFFFF00, _root.stabar); 

Thanks for the help.

[rachil0]

Does an AS2 movieclip have a "colorTransform" member, or are you just adding a new member and assigning it a value? (I think the latter would have no effect).

I never did much AS2. The way I read the documentation, it says that you should add a new flash.filters.ColorMatrixFilter to the MovieClips "filters" member (filters is an array, just push the ColorMatrixFilter at the end). Someone with greater AS2 experience can probably be more helpful.

[Captain_404]

I beleive you may be looking for something along these lines:

function color_change(color, mc) { 
    var colorTrans = new Color(mc); 
    colorTrans.setRGB(0x000000);
}

This is just off the top of my head though, so I'm not sure if it will work like you want.

[GrimStrike]

Oddly enough that did. I was using the import because the CS3 help file says (for .getRGB):

Deprecated since Flash Player 8. The Color class has been deprecated in favor of the flash.geom.ColorTransform class.

I used the import successfully in another AS2 script I made but oh well. It works, I'm running with it. Thanks for the help.