# Help with color effect

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-with-color-effect/26250>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [July 21, 2003, 1:16pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-with-color-effect/26250 "2003-07-21T13:16:19Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 9\
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**Author:** ![tommy69](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/91b2a8/32.png) [@tommy69](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/tommy69)\
**Post date:** [July 21, 2003, 1:16pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-with-color-effect/26250/1 "2003-07-21T13:16:19Z")

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hi, i’m new to flash and i just want to know how you deal with the color change of the flash menu (fla) attached…a good example is one on [Paul Smith’s](http://www.paulsmith.co.uk/frameset_modem.html) website.  
cheers

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 21, 2003, 1:26pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-with-color-effect/26250/2 "2003-07-21T13:26:27Z")

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where is the fla?

TD

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 21, 2003, 1:34pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-with-color-effect/26250/3 "2003-07-21T13:34:47Z")

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you havent attached fla. anyway, make the button an mc.

onClipEvent(enterFrame){  
if(hitTest(\_root.\_xmouse,\_root.\_ymouse,false)){  
colour=new Color(this)  
colour.setRGB(0x33ff00)

}  
}

This is a very primitive method of doing this but it helps, because if the button is only text, then on(rollover) will only execute when the mouseis touching the text.

Hope this was what u wanted:)

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 21, 2003, 9:31pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-with-color-effect/26250/4 "2003-07-21T21:31:11Z")

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sorry guys, i’m having problems attaching the fla file. the first posting i didn’t preview but i was dead sure i did attached it. so this time i previewed it just to confirm but still nothing shows. any ideas?

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 21, 2003, 9:33pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-with-color-effect/26250/5 "2003-07-21T21:33:38Z")

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oops! it did finally :)…the preview function probably wasn’t working properly…anyway there you go.

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 21, 2003, 9:35pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-with-color-effect/26250/6 "2003-07-21T21:35:02Z")

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You need to edit the button inside the movie clips on stage.

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 21, 2003, 9:44pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-with-color-effect/26250/7 "2003-07-21T21:44:39Z")

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Heres an example.

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 21, 2003, 10:40pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-with-color-effect/26250/8 "2003-07-21T22:40:53Z")

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thanks claudio for that…but how do you change the colour of the text itself (not the whole button) once the mouse roll-over?  
cheers

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 22, 2003, 12:05am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-with-color-effect/26250/9 "2003-07-22T00:05:47Z")

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[http://www.kirupa.com/developer/flash5/button.htm](http://www.kirupa.com/developer/flash5/button.htm)