Another color question

hi,

I’m having 8 different color crayon Movie Clips and about 15through20 MC icons
and when i drag a crayon, lets say is red, I want it to color the movie clip it touches when released now my problem is that there are several MC icons and it would take me a long time to write conditions for all like this:

redcrayon

[AS]
on(release){
if(this.hitTest(_parent.MC1)){
myColoredObject = new Color (_root.MC1);
myColoredObject.setRGB(0xFF0000);

}else if(this.hitTest(_parent.MC2)){
myColoredObject = new Color (_root.MC2);
myColoredObject.setRGB(0xFF0000);
}
//etc…
[/AS]

any ideas how can i do this without doing this for all crayons
thanks C:-) :thumb: