# Mx or flash GURU, slacker, AS KING, anybody, a little "COLOR" in your life...!?!

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**Created:** [December 11, 2002, 4:28am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/mx-or-flash-guru-slacker-as-king-anybody-a-little-color-in-your-life/9405 "2002-12-11T04:28:12Z")\
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**Author:** ![morse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/bbce88/32.png) [@morse](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/morse)\
**Post date:** [December 11, 2002, 4:28am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/mx-or-flash-guru-slacker-as-king-anybody-a-little-color-in-your-life/9405/1 "2002-12-11T04:28:12Z")

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Hey folks, just a question about colors. Some guy a while back asking about background color struck me off to experiment… I’m having trouble, ofcourse…

See if the code is legal…

```auto
myColor = new Color(MC);//MC is a movie clip instance
Time = new Date();
Hours = Time.getHours();
if (Hours="1") {
	myColor.setRGB(0x000066);
} else if (Hours="2") {
	myColor.setRGB(0x003366);
} else if (Hours="3") {
	myColor.setRGB(0x000099);
} else if (Hours="4") {
	myColor.setRGB(0x003399);
} else if (Hours="5") {
	myColor.setRGB(0x0033cc);
} else if (Hours="6") {
	myColor.setRGB(0x0000ff);
} else if (Hours="7") {
	myColor.setRGB(0x0033ff);
} else if (Hours="8") {
	myColor.setRGB(0x0066ff);
} else if (Hours="9") {
	myColor.setRGB(0x0099ff);
} else if (Hours="10") {
	myColor.setRGB(0x00ccff);
} else if (Hours="11") {
	myColor.setRGB(0x00ffff);
} else if (Hours="12") {
	myColor.setRGB(0x00ffcc);
} else if (Hours="13") {
	myColor.setRGB(0x00ff99);
} else if (Hours="14") {
	myColor.setRGB(0x00ff66);
} else if (Hours="15") {
	myColor.setRGB(0x00ff33);
} else if (Hours="16") {
	myColor.setRGB(0x00ff00);
} else if (Hours="17") {
	myColor.setRGB(0x00cc33);
} else if (Hours="18") {
	myColor.setRGB(0x009966);
} else if (Hours="19") {
	myColor.setRGB(0x006666);
} else if (Hours="20") {
	myColor.setRGB(0x003366);
} else if (Hours="21") {
	myColor.setRGB(0x003333);
} else if (Hours="22") {
	myColor.setRGB(0x000033);
} else if (Hours="23") {
	myColor.setRGB(0xCCCCCC);
} else if (Hours="24") {
	myColor.setRGB(0xCCCCCC);
}

```

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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:** [December 11, 2002, 4:31am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/mx-or-flash-guru-slacker-as-king-anybody-a-little-color-in-your-life/9405/2 "2002-12-11T04:31:13Z")

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i would use an array to store the colors and then do something like:

myColor.setRGB(nColor[Hours]);

nColor being the name of the array and Hours being your time variable…It would get rid of all of those if/else statements…

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**Post date:** [December 11, 2002, 5:46am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/mx-or-flash-guru-slacker-as-king-anybody-a-little-color-in-your-life/9405/3 "2002-12-11T05:46:30Z")

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Well, I’v never used an array, and the AS dictionary doesn’t help much, but is this the right format???

```auto
nColor = new Array();
myArray[0] = "0x000066;"
//and so on

```

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**Post date:** [December 11, 2002, 5:55am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/mx-or-flash-guru-slacker-as-king-anybody-a-little-color-in-your-life/9405/4 "2002-12-11T05:55:58Z")

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ok how is this? Remember, its my first array, ever…

```auto
myColor = new Color(MC);
Time = new Date();
Hours = Time.getHours();
myColor.setRGB(nColor[Hours]);
//
nColor = new Array();
nColor[0] = "0x000066;";
nColor[1] = "0x003366";
nColor[2] = "0x000099";
nColor[3] = "0x003399";
nColor[4] = "0x003399";
nColor[5] = "0x0000cc";
nColor[6] = "0x0033cc";
nColor[7] = "0x0000ff";
nColor[8] = "0x0033ff";
nColor[9] = "0x0066ff";
nColor[10] = "0x0099ff";
nColor[11] = "0x00ccff";
nColor[12] = "0x00ffff";
nColor[13] = "0x00ffcc";
nColor[14] = "0x00ff99";
nColor[15] = "0x00ff66";
nColor[16] = "0x00ff33";
nColor[17] = "0x00ff00";
nColor[18] = "0x00cc33";
nColor[19] = "0x009966";
nColor[20] = "0x006666";
nColor[21] = "0x003366";
nColor[22] = "0x003333";
nColor[23] = "0x000033";

```

::edit:: oops i spotted an error myself, a big one lol. Ok, I fixed it. Waddya think?::/::

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```auto
nColor = new Array();
nColor[0] = 0x000066;
nColor[1] = 0x003366;
nColor[2] = 0x000099;
nColor[3] = 0x003399;
nColor[4] = 0x003399;
nColor[5] = 0x0000cc;
nColor[6] = 0x0033cc;
nColor[7] = 0x0000ff;
nColor[8] = 0x0033ff;
nColor[9] = 0x0066ff;
nColor[10] = 0x0099ff;
nColor[11] = 0x00ccff;
nColor[12] = 0x00ffff;
nColor[13] = 0x00ffcc;
nColor[14] = 0x00ff99;
nColor[15] = 0x00ff66;
nColor[16] = 0x00ff33;
nColor[17] = 0x00ff00;
nColor[18] = 0x00cc33;
nColor[19] = 0x009966;
nColor[20] = 0x006666;
nColor[21] = 0x003366;
nColor[22] = 0x003333;
nColor[23] = 0x000033;
Time = new Date();
myHour = Time.getHours();
myColor = new Color(_root.MC);
myColor.setRGB(nColor[myHour]);

```

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**Post date:** [December 11, 2002, 6:22am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/mx-or-flash-guru-slacker-as-king-anybody-a-little-color-in-your-life/9405/6 "2002-12-11T06:22:07Z")

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I think they both work…

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**Post date:** [December 11, 2002, 6:23am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/mx-or-flash-guru-slacker-as-king-anybody-a-little-color-in-your-life/9405/7 "2002-12-11T06:23:13Z")

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Lost’s is easier to understand, though.

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**Post date:** [December 11, 2002, 6:41am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/mx-or-flash-guru-slacker-as-king-anybody-a-little-color-in-your-life/9405/8 "2002-12-11T06:41:01Z")

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[swf=“[http://www.geocities.com/h4xx02/color3.swf](http://www.geocities.com/h4xx02/color3.swf) height=100 width=300”][/swf]

Here is a product… Come back on the hour, and the color should change a little bit… 🙂 Hope it works, have fun!  
P.S. Thanks to \<img src=“[http://8ballcreations.com/lostinbeta/images/lostinbetasmiley.gif](http://8ballcreations.com/lostinbeta/images/lostinbetasmiley.gif)”\> Lost for a tad of help 🙂

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**Post date:** [December 11, 2002, 6:52am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/mx-or-flash-guru-slacker-as-king-anybody-a-little-color-in-your-life/9405/9 "2002-12-11T06:52:35Z")

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well, a tad more than a tad lol.

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**Post date:** [December 11, 2002, 8:12am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/mx-or-flash-guru-slacker-as-king-anybody-a-little-color-in-your-life/9405/10 "2002-12-11T08:12:18Z")

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You could also do this and only write nColor twice:

nColor = new Array()  
nColor = [“0x000066”,“0x003399”, etc etc etc]

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**Post date:** [December 11, 2002, 11:36am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/mx-or-flash-guru-slacker-as-king-anybody-a-little-color-in-your-life/9405/11 "2002-12-11T11:36:06Z")

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Or once:

```auto
nColor = ["0x000066","0x003399",...]; 

```

pom :crazy:

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**Post date:** [December 11, 2002, 3:10pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/mx-or-flash-guru-slacker-as-king-anybody-a-little-color-in-your-life/9405/12 "2002-12-11T15:10:43Z")

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I don’t know why, but I like to define it as a new Array.

Makes me feel smart or stupid or something…not sure.

:P:P:P:P:P:P

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**Post date:** [December 11, 2002, 7:06pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/mx-or-flash-guru-slacker-as-king-anybody-a-little-color-in-your-life/9405/13 "2002-12-11T19:06:42Z")

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Yeah, I knew you could do that…

But for editing by time… I think it would be a lot easier to edit if you do it the original way I did it.

In case you need to change the colors, that way you don’t have to sit there and count each out until you get to where you want.

For the record… I do it Ilyas’ way usually.

myArray = [0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9]

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**Post date:** [December 11, 2002, 7:26pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/mx-or-flash-guru-slacker-as-king-anybody-a-little-color-in-your-life/9405/14 "2002-12-11T19:26:21Z")

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LiB: For the record 😛

lol, I always define my variable as a new Array, helps me to remember while cruising through my code…

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**Post date:** [December 11, 2002, 7:38pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/mx-or-flash-guru-slacker-as-king-anybody-a-little-color-in-your-life/9405/15 "2002-12-11T19:38:43Z")

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I was saying anything about your method Jubba. If it works, use it. I was just stating that I don’t usually define my arrays the way I did for the code for morse.

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**Post date:** [December 11, 2002, 7:42pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/mx-or-flash-guru-slacker-as-king-anybody-a-little-color-in-your-life/9405/16 "2002-12-11T19:42:16Z")

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Ok I always have trouble with this, so if someone can help me out I’d appreciate it. If you don’t think this is appopriate to your thread, Morse, just say so and I’ll start a new one.

You guys are saying that you can declare an array and populate it simply by saying:

myArray = [a, b, c, d];

My question is, are square brackets used only in arrays? In other words, using the square brackets automatically states that myArray is a new Array() object?

Also, does anybody know if Flash lets you name your array elements? I forget what the term for this is (referential array? damn, can’t remember), but it’s when instead of referencing an array element like myArray[6], you can say myArray[“age”] and that element would have the age of a person, for example.

-Al

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**Post date:** [December 11, 2002, 7:54pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/mx-or-flash-guru-slacker-as-king-anybody-a-little-color-in-your-life/9405/17 "2002-12-11T19:54:42Z")

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Yes I do believe square brackets define arrays.

What I am wondering about that is if things like \_root[“ball”+i] constitutes as an array though… not sure.

As for targeting a specific spot… Try something like this…

```auto
myArray = [];
myArray[0] = {realName:"Shane", age:"18", forumName:"Lostinbeta"};
trace(myArray[0].realName);
trace(myArray[0].forumName);
trace(myArray[0].age);

```

Note: The array is purposely out of order of the trace so you can see it doesn’t just go in order.

Also Note: Don’t blame me if the code doesn’t work, it is untested.

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**Post date:** [December 11, 2002, 8:05pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/mx-or-flash-guru-slacker-as-king-anybody-a-little-color-in-your-life/9405/18 "2002-12-11T20:05:08Z")

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Well yeah, \_root[“blabla”] constitutes an array, an array that contains everything that’s in your \_root.

And I think you’re talking about associative arrays, Al: [http://www.kirupaforum.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=313](http://www.kirupaforum.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=313)

pom :crazy:

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**Post date:** [December 11, 2002, 8:47pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/mx-or-flash-guru-slacker-as-king-anybody-a-little-color-in-your-life/9405/19 "2002-12-11T20:47:17Z")

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Ah, that is some cool stuff in that thread 🙂

Thanks for that link Ilyas.

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**Post date:** [December 11, 2002, 8:50pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/mx-or-flash-guru-slacker-as-king-anybody-a-little-color-in-your-life/9405/20 "2002-12-11T20:50:00Z")

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Thank you Ilyas, that’s the stuff. 🙂

\_root[“movie”+i] acts as a pointer I think. But then again, I think I read somewhere that arrays ARE pointers.

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