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By Adrien-Luc Sanders, About.com Guide to Animation since 2005

ActionScripting Basics: .textColor with Dynamic Text Fields

Sunday August 13, 2006
Just to add a little fun to the previous lessons, let's play with color a bit and learn a new way to control text colors via ActionScript. The textColor ActionScript lets you define the color of the contents of a dynamic text field, and change them at any event you define--without having to use tweens or button states.

Related lessons:

  • Using getProperty
  • Using getProperty and Dynamic Text to Display a Value
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