# Movieclip Tint
**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/movieclip-tint/28132
**Category:** flash
**Created:** [August 10, 2003, 4:32pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/movieclip-tint/28132 "2003-08-10T16:32:56Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author:  [@Voetsjoeba](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Voetsjoeba)
#### Post date: [August 10, 2003, 4:32pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/movieclip-tint/28132/1 "2003-08-10T16:32:56Z")
Hi,
I have an image inside a movieclip, with the alpha set to 30%. Now I’d want to be able to change the tint (like Hue from Photoshop) of that movieclip on button press. I figured it might be possible by creating a new movieclip, putting a transparant square in it and changing the \_alpha and color on buttonpress, but isn’t it possible to do directly change the tint of the movie with the image inside with actionscript ?
I tried senocular’s method ([http://proto.layer51.com/d.aspx?f=615](http://proto.layer51.com/d.aspx?f=615)), but my movie turned all pink instead of red tranparant. Can anyone help me with this ?
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [August 10, 2003, 6:26pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/movieclip-tint/28132/2 "2003-08-10T18:26:25Z")
[AS]var myColor = new Color(myMovieClip);
myColor.setTransform({rb:255, aa:30});[/AS]
[http://www.macromedia.com/support/flash/action\_scripts/actionscript\_dictionary/actionscript\_dictionary146.html](http://www.macromedia.com/support/flash/action_scripts/actionscript_dictionary/actionscript_dictionary146.html)
That should do…
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [August 10, 2003, 6:31pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/movieclip-tint/28132/3 "2003-08-10T18:31:43Z")
Yup, that does it. Thanks kax 🙂 How do you clear the setTransform ? When I click another button, it adds the tranparancy instead of changing it.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [August 10, 2003, 7:10pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/movieclip-tint/28132/4 "2003-08-10T19:10:06Z")
[AS]myColor.setTransform({rb:0, aa:100});[/AS]
😛
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [August 11, 2003, 7:24am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/movieclip-tint/28132/5 "2003-08-11T07:24:28Z")
That didn’t work. This worked though:
[AS]
var clearColor = new Color(\_root.bg);
clearColor.setTransform({rb:0,gb:0,bb:0, aa:100});
var redColor = new Color(\_root.bg);
redColor.setTransform({rb:100, aa:30});
[/AS]
Thanks for the help =)
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [August 11, 2003, 7:31am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/movieclip-tint/28132/6 "2003-08-11T07:31:50Z")
No problem, I guess…
That makes absolutely no sense, though. The default value for gb and bb, is zero!! You shouldn’t have to set them to zero again. 😛
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [August 16, 2003, 6:11am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/movieclip-tint/28132/7 "2003-08-16T06:11:13Z")
Oh, I see, I forgot to mention that I have three buttons 😊 A red, a blue and a green one. So I had to set everything back to zero before changing it 🙂 You couldn’t now I had three buttons, it worked for one 🙂
Thanks Kax 🙂
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [August 16, 2003, 7:23am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/movieclip-tint/28132/8 "2003-08-16T07:23:44Z")
It makes sense now… 😛
You’re welcome. 😉