Re: [Swftools-common] ActionScript colorText property not working?

[Pablo Rodríguez]

Many thanks, Chris, for the reply.

Chris Pugh wrote:
> 2009/3/2 Pablo Rodríguez:
> > Your code might change the color of a button, but not text. Or at least,
> > this doesn't work:
> >
> >        colStr = "0x00ff00";
> >        myColor = new Color(color_text);
> >        myColor.setRGB(colStr);
> >        color_text="red";
>
> Line three above sets the color, not line four.

I know that line four replaces the text variable, not the color.

But exactly line two shows my fault. I was trying to apply the color to 
the text variable, not to the .edittext itself. Shame on me!

> And, the example below, works for me
> without problem!  Thus,
>
> ''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''
> .flash filename="01.swf" bbox=300x200 version=10 fps=60 compress
>     .font tahoma "fonts/tahoma.ttf"
>     .edittext edata font=tahoma size=10pt width=100 height=50
> color=green text="Do I look
>                Green?" variable=etext
>
> .action:
>        colStr="0xff0000";
>        myColor= new Color(edata);
>        myColor.setRGB(colStr);
> .end
> .put edata x=20 y=30
> .end
> ------------------------------------------------
>
> If upu have no joy, then why not post the whole script section (
> within reason )?

Thanks for the script. Otherwise I wouldn't have noticed my mistake.

Thanks again for your help,


Pablo