Color class

Availability

Flash Player 5.

Description

The Color class lets you set the RGB color value and color transform of movie clips and retrieve those values once they have been set.

You must use the constructor new Color() to create a Color object before calling its methods.

Method summary for the Color class

Method	Description
`Color.getRGB()`	Returns the numeric RGB value set by the last `setRGB()` call.
`Color.getTransform()`	Returns the transform information set by the last `setTransform()` call.
`Color.setRGB()`	Sets the hexadecimal representation of the RGB value for a Color object.
`Color.setTransform()`	Sets the color transform for a Color object.

Constructor for the Color class

Availability

Flash Player 5.

Usage

new Color(target)

Parameters

target The instance name of a movie clip.

Returns

Nothing.

Description

Constructor; creates a Color object for the movie clip specified by the target parameter. You can then use the methods of that Color object to change the color of the entire target movie clip.

Example

The following example creates a Color object called my_color for the movie clip my_mc and sets its RGB value:

my_color = new Color(my_mc);
my_color.setRGB(0xff9933);