Passing a hexadecimal - Data type?

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I’m trying to pass a hexadecimal number into a function so that it can be used to format a text field. Does anyone know the correct syntax/data type to use here?


package {
    public function process(answerSprites:DisplayObjectContainer,hexCode:uint):void {
        txtfield.setTextFormat(hexCode);
        // 1067: Implicit coercion of a value of type uint to an unrelated type flash.text:TextFormat.
    }


    // Another line of code calls process()...
    process(answerSprites,0x85BB3D);
}