# Menu coloring help

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/menu-coloring-help/279218>\
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**Created:** [January 11, 2009, 8:47pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/menu-coloring-help/279218 "2009-01-11T20:47:42Z")\
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**Author:** ![lope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/43a26b/32.png) [@lope](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/lope)\
**Post date:** [January 11, 2009, 8:47pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/menu-coloring-help/279218/1 "2009-01-11T20:47:42Z")

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My menu consist of dynamic textfields located inside transparent movieclips and so far I have only made roll over and roll out effect like the this:

(the text inside dynamic textfields is set to white color by default)

function rollOverMenu(e:MouseEvent):void {  
e.target.txt.textColor = 0xFF9900;  
}  
function rollOutMenu(e:MouseEvent):void {  
e.target.txt.textColor = 0xFFFFFF;  
}

Now i need it to be functionable like a button, so next to roll over and roll out i need also up and down state, and i am talking only about text having certain color in each of  
these states, nothing else…

But right now, I am only coloring the text on roll over and roll out and i am not sure if this setup can get me up and down state also, because each time I roll out of it, the color will change to roll out color…

I though initially this is going to be easy but now i cant really figure a way to do this, maybe somebody could give me some advice how to do that with the setup i have.