# Recolor Sprite with solid color and tiling background
**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/recolor-sprite-with-solid-color-and-tiling-background/265194
**Category:** flash
**Created:** [July 5, 2008, 6:53pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/recolor-sprite-with-solid-color-and-tiling-background/265194 "2008-07-05T18:53:24Z")
**Posts on this page:** 14
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### Author:  [@Sage\_of\_Fire](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Sage_of_Fire)
#### Post date: [July 5, 2008, 6:53pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/recolor-sprite-with-solid-color-and-tiling-background/265194/1 "2008-07-05T18:53:24Z")
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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### Author:  [@gigaboost](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/gigaboost)
#### Post date: [July 5, 2008, 7:00pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/recolor-sprite-with-solid-color-and-tiling-background/265194/2 "2008-07-05T19:00:02Z")
myColor = 0xFFFFFF
myColoredObject = new Color(object\_name);
myColoredObject.setRGB(myColor);
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### Author:  [@sekasi](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/sekasi)
#### Post date: [July 5, 2008, 7:03pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/recolor-sprite-with-solid-color-and-tiling-background/265194/3 "2008-07-05T19:03:05Z")
The Color class is deprecated all the way back since Flash Player 8…
use flash.geom.ColorTransform
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### Author:  [@Sage\_of\_Fire](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Sage_of_Fire)
#### Post date: [July 5, 2008, 8:30pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/recolor-sprite-with-solid-color-and-tiling-background/265194/4 "2008-07-05T20:30:31Z")
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?
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### Author:  [@sekasi](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/sekasi)
#### Post date: [July 5, 2008, 8:59pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/recolor-sprite-with-solid-color-and-tiling-background/265194/5 "2008-07-05T20:59:02Z")
it’s right there in the docs… Colortransform.color(c:uint);
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### Author:  [@Sage\_of\_Fire](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Sage_of_Fire)
#### Post date: [July 5, 2008, 9:37pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/recolor-sprite-with-solid-color-and-tiling-background/265194/6 "2008-07-05T21:37:47Z")
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.
```auto
private function onColorChanged(evt:ColorPickerEvent):void {
this.ColorTransform(evt.newColor);
trace (evt.newColor);
}
```
I’d really appreciate an example…
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### Author:  [@sekasi](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/sekasi)
#### Post date: [July 5, 2008, 9:42pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/recolor-sprite-with-solid-color-and-tiling-background/265194/7 "2008-07-05T21:42:15Z")
```auto
var m:ColorTransform = new ColorTransform();
m.color = 0xFF00FF;
box.transform.colorTransform = m;
```
😛
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### Author:  [@TheCanadian](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/TheCanadian)
#### Post date: [July 5, 2008, 9:43pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/recolor-sprite-with-solid-color-and-tiling-background/265194/8 "2008-07-05T21:43:10Z")
```auto
var c:ColorTransform = new ColorTransform();
c.color = 0xFF0000;
mc.transform.colorTransform = c;
```
That makes mc red.
Pfft, I used cooler variable names
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### Author:  [@sekasi](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/sekasi)
#### Post date: [July 5, 2008, 10:13pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/recolor-sprite-with-solid-color-and-tiling-background/265194/9 "2008-07-05T22:13:06Z")
^^ m is obviously cooler than c.
m = manly, macho, moose, muscle, manhood, moolah
c = chickflick, chique, carnival, chihuahua.
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### Author:  [@Sage\_of\_Fire](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Sage_of_Fire)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2008, 5:32pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/recolor-sprite-with-solid-color-and-tiling-background/265194/10 "2008-07-06T17:32:26Z")
Thanks for the examples guys; if I ever finish the project, I’ll post it somewhere.
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### Author:  [@Sage\_of\_Fire](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Sage_of_Fire)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2008, 5:39pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/recolor-sprite-with-solid-color-and-tiling-background/265194/11 "2008-07-06T17:39:39Z")
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
```auto
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.
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### Author:  [@spiderbox](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/spiderbox)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2008, 6:10pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/recolor-sprite-with-solid-color-and-tiling-background/265194/12 "2008-07-06T18:10:04Z")
Sage\_of\_Fire I have class that work in same way like in AS2.0 plus new features
check my [[U] **blog** [/U]](http://www.creativearmenia.com) RichColor class. P.S. u can ser R,G,B values separately :).
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### Author:  [@sekasi](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/sekasi)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2008, 6:15pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/recolor-sprite-with-solid-color-and-tiling-background/265194/13 "2008-07-06T18:15:03Z")
this.transform.ColorTransform = c;
should be
this.transform.colorTransform = c;
Read the examples before you try something.
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### Author:  [@Sage\_of\_Fire](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Sage_of_Fire)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2008, 7:20pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/recolor-sprite-with-solid-color-and-tiling-background/265194/14 "2008-07-06T19:20:56Z")
Sorry, rookie mistake. The typos alllllways get me…