# Get color from bitmap

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/get-color-from-bitmap/180773>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [March 3, 2006, 9:16am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/get-color-from-bitmap/180773 "2006-03-03T09:16:48Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 1\
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**Author:** ![Zimmermann](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/f19dbf/32.png) [@Zimmermann](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Zimmermann)\
**Post date:** [March 3, 2006, 9:16am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/get-color-from-bitmap/180773/1 "2006-03-03T09:16:48Z")

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I want the user to be able to click a picture and the background of the swf will change to the color of the pixel where the user clicked.

Any hints? 🙂