Mouse Trail Help

programming flash
1

i followed the tutorial and everything works great on the FLASH MX mousetrail special effect. I was wondering if there is anyway to change the color on the text. On my project, I have a black background, and the letters are black on the tutorial. Is there anyway to change the color of the text? Thanks for all your help.

Josh

2

Define the color for the text in the [font=courier new]TextFormat[/font] object:

letterformat = new TextFormat();
letterformat.font = "Verdana";
letterformat.align = "center";
letterformat.size = "10";
letterformat.color = 0xFFFFFF;
3

i am a beginner at flash as far as actionscript goes. can you please give me a detailed script. i want white letters.

josh

4

that should be white…

5 
Text = "Kirupa has the best site on the net!!!";
letters = Text.split("");
letterformat = new TextFormat();
letterformat.font = "Verdana";
letterformat.align = "center";
letterformat.size = "10";
**letterformat.color = 0xFFFFFF;**
spacing = 8;
speed = 3;
for (var LTR = 0; LTR<letters.length; LTR++) {
	mc = _root.createEmptyMovieClip(LTR+"l", LTR);
	mc.createTextField(letters[LTR]+"t", LTR, LTR*spacing, 10, 20, 20);
	with (mc[letters[LTR]+"t"]) {
		text = letters[LTR];
		setTextFormat(letterformat);
		selectable = false;
	}
	if (LTR) {
		mc.prevClip = _root[(LTR-1)+"l"];
		mc.onEnterFrame = function() {
			this._x += (this.prevClip._x-this._x+5)/speed;
			this._y += (this.prevClip._y-this._y)/speed;
		};
	} else {
		mc.onEnterFrame = function() {
			this._x += (_root._xmouse-this._x+10)/speed;
			this._y += (_root._ymouse-this._y)/speed;
		};
	}
}

There… :sigh: