Convert XML string to hexadecimal uint color

[maguskrool]

Hello. I have an xml file containing color values to be applied in a series of shapes in my swf. However, when I try to assign the values, it doesn't work, it recognizes only a string and assigns the value 0 to the colors.

Can anyone help me with this? Thanks.


//my_color.xml
<color_list>
<color_1>0xFFBB00</color_1>
...
<color_n>0xAA33FF</color_n>
</color_list>

The xml is then parsed into a variable called xmlColor.

//.fla
var c1:uint = xmlColor.color_1;
trace (xmlColor.color_1) //0xFFBB00
trace (c1) //0

[wvxvw]

parseInt('0xabcdef',16);

[maguskrool]

Hi, thanks! I just noticed I was forgetting something in my code and thus not accessing the correct xml tag. The example I provided should work fine.

Sorry for wasting your time and again, thank you for your help.

[adeem]

in case someone want to convert a string to uint color

like
var fontColor:String = "0xFFFFFF";
fontColor = fontColor.substring(1,fontColor.length);
var backgroundColor:uint = uint("0x"+fontColor)

[shubs6]

Thanks adeem. it helped me too :-)

[baquiano]

Thanks Adeem, your code helped a lot!

Re: maguskool, you can try the following:

var c1_str:String = xmlColor.color_1;
var c1:uint = uint("0x"+c1_str.slice(1,c1_str.length));

// or in one line

var c1:uint = uint("0x"+xmlColor.color_1.slice(1,c1_str.length));

[aneuryzma]

It always give me 0. How is possible ?

var fontColor:String="0xCCCCCC";
fontColor=fontColor.substring(1,fontColor.length);
trace(uint("0x"+fontColor));

I need the parameters for this function
new ColorTransform(0,0,0,1,255,0,0,0);

[wvxvw]

var fontColor:String = "#CCCCCC";
fontColor = fontColor.substring(1, fontColor.length);
trace(uint("0x" + fontColor));
You probably wanted to do this, otherwise why would you use substring()?