help: Color changing function

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.

PHP Code:

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import flash.geom.ColorTransform;

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


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I'm using the function call below:

PHP Code:

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change_color(0xFFFF00, _root.stabar); 


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Thanks for the help.

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.

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

Code:

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

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

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

Quote:

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

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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.