Changing color of text in a movieclip on click

programming flash
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Hello,

As stated in the title, I’m looking to change the color of text in a movieclip when the user clicks it(IE it’ll turn red for wrong, and green for correct). I’ve set it up so it can do other things, like gotoAndPlay, I just can’t get it to change color. Here’s what I’ve got so far for AS. The movieclip on the stage with the text in it is called q1, for question 1.

stop();

q1.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_DOWN, navPress);


function navPress(event:MouseEvent):void{
    trace("worky!");
    q1.textColor = "0x009900";
}

This is what works, but obviously does the wrong thing, just wanted to see if the code so far was right

stop();

q1.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_DOWN, navPress);


function navPress(event:MouseEvent):void{
    trace("worky!");
    q1.textColor = root.gotoAndPlay(3);
}

Does anyone know how to change the text color on mouse down?

Thanks so much!