# Need help on a tutorial (believe it or not)

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/need-help-on-a-tutorial-believe-it-or-not/167457>\
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**Created:** [October 28, 2005, 10:54am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/need-help-on-a-tutorial-believe-it-or-not/167457 "2005-10-28T10:54:47Z")\
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**Author:** ![wit0005](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f9ae1b/32.png) [@wit0005](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/wit0005)\
**Post date:** [October 28, 2005, 10:54am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/need-help-on-a-tutorial-believe-it-or-not/167457/1 "2005-10-28T10:54:47Z")

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Howdy howdy, I am currently doing the Kirupa tutorial in which you can make your own colouring book, and i was presented with this action-script instruction:  
on (release) { \_root.fillColor = /_someHexCode here, e.g. 0x000000 for black_/ } I did this, placing in the hex code #0066FF, which is a blue colour. Yet when i went to check the syntax it came up with this error:

**Error** Scene=Scene 1, layer=stuff, frame=1:Line 2: Operator ‘=’ must be followed by an operand  
\_root.fillColor = #0066FF

What is an operand and what have i done wrong?:sigh: