# Colorize MCs inside a component

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/colorize-mcs-inside-a-component/101508>\
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**Created:** [February 10, 2004, 6:20pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/colorize-mcs-inside-a-component/101508 "2004-02-10T18:20:55Z")\
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**Author:** ![andrthad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e480ec/32.png) [@andrthad](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/andrthad)\
**Post date:** [February 10, 2004, 6:20pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/colorize-mcs-inside-a-component/101508/1 "2004-02-10T18:20:55Z")

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Hi All,

I’m stumped on how to colorize some mcs inside my component. I have a combobox that I use a style to colorize the face, background, scrolltrack, etc. Then I have some very simple buttons with a stroked border and middle fill. I basically want to know how to make my own properties to colorize these buttons. Any ideas? I’ve tried the following:

1. looking through the combobox component code. Wow what a mess? I can’t really make sense of anything.

2. Thought perhaps you just need to draw the buttons on the fly when the swf is created. Seems like too much work.