Changing text without changing frames.

[Jose Olivas]

I have a small flash movie that is basically a color chooser. Rather than
changing the color of an item by putting the color in a frame I change and
instance by using the following actionscript:

on (release) {
// Code that changes the color of the shirt
myColor = new Color(_root.shirtColor);
myColor.setRGB(0x484C55);
}

What I need to do now is change a text value in the same manner. I have a
color say blue, and one say real blue. well when I click the button the
colors change as necessary BUT I would like a label to come up with it. So
What I would like to do is put a label below the color box and have that
label change to the name the the color that is chosen. Is this possible? I
have used dynamic text in the past with an external .txt file but never
anything that changes by a button.

Thank you for any help.

Jose

[Brandon Bradley]

This is certainly possible. You will need to give the dynamic text field
a instance name. I'll call it "myColorText" for the sake of example.

Then in your code wherever you want to change what the dynamic text says
you would add a line of code like the following.

myColorText.text = "stuff I want the text to display";

If you want it to instead refference a variable you could assign it as
so where myMessage is the name of the variable.

myColorText.text = myMessage;

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Brandon Bradley
Macromedia Certified Instructor
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