using AS to change the colour of a graphic/MC (in Flash 5)

[flashMine]

Hi everyone!

Can this be done - or is there some way around it?

If you have a look my site for my Jiu Jitsu club:
http://www.pc16.net/chris/city/?swf=cityjj
and go to "Events", you'll see my timeline-calendar. On it are dots which appear depending on variables obtained from an external text file. I'd like to change their colours depending on these variables. Ie to indicate what kind of event it represents.

Can anyone help?

Thanks in advance!
Chris

ps - I have an idea of another way I can do this, but I run into problems with it. At the moment, the dots are already in the timeline-calendar's scene. I tried attaching them and naming them with a variable, i, but this didn't work - I had something like:

on(rollOver) {
   // Create dots and position them
   for(i=0; i<numberOfDates; i++) {
      attachMovie("dot", i, "_root.stuff");
      setProperty (i, _y, 0);
      setProperty (i, _x, xtimedot[ i ]);
   }
}

I reckon I could attach movies like dotGreen, dotYellow etc.

but it looks like only ONE movie was attached - the one according to the last value of i.

Any ideas?

Thanks again!

[Wizzz]

code:

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new Color( your_mc ).setRGB( desired_color );

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