# Transforming movie clips

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/transforming-movie-clips/178341>\
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**Created:** [February 9, 2006, 4:49pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/transforming-movie-clips/178341 "2006-02-09T16:49:09Z")\
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**Author:** ![zerium](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/85e7bf/32.png) [@zerium](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/zerium)\
**Post date:** [February 9, 2006, 4:49pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/transforming-movie-clips/178341/1 "2006-02-09T16:49:09Z")

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Ok I am working on a flash map and I want to write a function that will transform the states on the map w/o having to apply actionscript to each individual movie clip.

The way I was going to set it up is like this:

each state is a movie clip and inside that clip is a clip that contains the state artwork and the text for that state. I also wanted to be able to dynamically set the background color, border color and text color for the clip.

can someone point me in the right direction on this?