Recolor Sprite with solid color and tiling background

programming flash
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I’d like to know how I could recolor an existing display object (like a movieclip or sprite) dynamically. I want to let the user pick colors or patterns for the sprite from a color picker I’ve already programmed. I need to know first how to apply a new color to an existing sprite, and second how to apply a tiling pattern to it. Thanks in advance.

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myColor = 0xFFFFFF
myColoredObject = new Color(object_name);
myColoredObject.setRGB(myColor);

3

The Color class is deprecated all the way back since Flash Player 8…

use flash.geom.ColorTransform

4

As usual, Adobe’s language reference is less than helpful on the topic. What’s the exact command I could use to reset a display object’s color, without any of the garbage about channels and RGB. I just want to know how to set the object’s color to a standard Flash-syntax RGB code, not how to set it’s R, G, and B values separately. Can anybody give me an example?

5

it’s right there in the docs… Colortransform.color(c:uint);

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Well, I guess I must be incredibly dense, but I still don’t get it. I see lots of documentation, but I don’t understand how to apply it unless I can see an example. Their example doesn’t use the color() method. Here’s my code; it receives the new color from a custom event then sets the current movieClip’s color with it. This function is within the code for the MovieClip. It doesn’t work.


        
        private function onColorChanged(evt:ColorPickerEvent):void {
            this.ColorTransform(evt.newColor); 
            trace (evt.newColor);
        }

I’d really appreciate an example…

7 

var m:ColorTransform = new ColorTransform();
m.color = 0xFF00FF;
box.transform.colorTransform = m;

:stuck_out_tongue:

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var c:ColorTransform = new ColorTransform();
c.color = 0xFF0000;

mc.transform.colorTransform = c;

That makes mc red.

Pfft, I used cooler variable names

9

^^ m is obviously cooler than c.

m = manly, macho, moose, muscle, manhood, moolah

c = chickflick, chique, carnival, chihuahua.

10

Thanks for the examples guys; if I ever finish the project, I’ll post it somewhere.

11

I guess I should’ve tested it before thanking you; it doesn’t work. I have a class linked to an on-stage moveclip; this class listens for a custom event and that event triggers a function. Here’s the class

package classes {
	
	import flash.display.MovieClip;
	import flash.geom.*;
	import flash.events.*;
	
	public class MiniTruckSim extends MovieClip {
		public function MiniTruckSim():void {
			var cPicker:ColorPicker = new ColorPicker(stage);
			cPicker.addEventListener(ColorPickerEvent.COLOR_CHANGED, onColorChanged, false, 0, true);
		}
		
		private function onColorChanged(evt:ColorPickerEvent):void {
			var c:ColorTransform = new ColorTransform();
			c.color = evt.newColor;
			this.transform.ColorTransform = c;
		}
	}
}

… and here’s the error I get:
[pre]ReferenceError: Error #1056: Cannot create property ColorTransform on flash.geom.Transform.
at classes::MiniTruckSim/::onColorChanged()
at flash.events::EventDispatcher/flash.events:EventDispatcher::dispatchEventFunction()
at flash.events::EventDispatcher/dispatchEvent()
at ColorPicker/::setTruckColor()
at ColorPicker/::onClick()[/pre]
I’ll see if my new AS3 book has anything to say on the subject.

12

Sage_of_Fire I have class that work in same way like in AS2.0 plus new features
check my [U]blog[/U] RichColor class. P.S. u can ser R,G,B values separately :).

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this.transform.ColorTransform = c;

should be

this.transform.colorTransform = c;

Read the examples before you try something.

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Sorry, rookie mistake. The typos alllllways get me…