I have spent over 9 hours trying to figure out how to customize components. After battling the beast for all that time, all I have left to do is get the font color and face to be what I want. But, I've hit a wall.

Look here:
http://s153921539.onlinehome.us/guestbook.php


I'm getting guestbook info from PHP and displaying as HTML text in the left window. I've tried the below code on the first frame of the movie to try and get the color and face to appear, but everytime it just comes in as black text. Sometimes (which is weird) the input text boxes on the right take on the text color and face, but sometimes they do not.

I have not found a simple solution anywhere in Macromedia Help Docs, so I need your help! I will pay to get this done if I have to, so please email.

I don't give a crap about classes, methods, functions. I just want my darn text to be red.

Thank you,
Lou

---->start code:

//Makes text boxes input backgrounds transparent and sets global styles for font and color:

_global.styles.setStyle("backgroundColor", "transparent");
_global.styles.setStyle("color", 0x842D22);
_global.styles.setStyle("fontFamily", "Times");
read.entries.styles.setStyle("color", 0x842D22);
_global.styles.TextArea.setStyle("backgroundColor" , "transparent");

read.entries.vScrollPolicy = "auto";
write.yourcomments.vScrollPolicy = "auto";
/*
Changes the RectBorder class attributes, of which TextInput and TextArea components are parents.
*/
_global.styles.RectBorder.setStyle("borderColor", "transparent");
_global.styles.RectBorder.setStyle("borderCapColor ", "transparent");
_global.styles.RectBorder.setStyle("buttonColor", "transparent");
_global.styles.RectBorder.setStyle("highlightColor ", "transparent");
_global.styles.RectBorder.setStyle("shadowCapColor ", "transparent");
_global.styles.RectBorder.setStyle("shadowColor", "transparent");
_global.styles.RectBorder.setStyle("themeColor", "transparent");

--->end code