[AS3] Change the colour of a movieclip using a combo box

[kennie1212]

Hi,

I'm fairly new to Action-script and am having trouble trying to change the colour of a movie clip (instance: mcborder) once a colour has been selected with the combo box.

Code so far:

import fl.controls.ComboBox;
import fl.data.DataProvider;

var pickcol:Array = new Array(
{label:"Red"},
{label:"Blue"},
{label:"Green"},
{label:"Yellow"},
{label:"Orange"},
{label:"Purple"},
{label:"Pink"}
);

var aCb:ComboBox = new ComboBox();
aCb.dropdownWidth = 210;
aCb.width = 200;
aCb.move(150, 50);
aCb.prompt = "Pick a Colour";
aCb.dataProvider = new DataProvider(pickcol);
aCb.addEventListener(Event.CHANGE, changeHandler);

addChild(aCb);

function changeHandler(event:Event):void {
}

If any one could help it would be much appreciated

Thanks

[groeterud]

i would suggest using a If sentence to check for the label in the changeHandler function

[SephirothOWA]

import fl.controls.ComboBox; 
import fl.data.DataProvider; 
import flash.geom.ColorTransform;

var pickcol:Array = new Array( 
{label:"Red", colour: 0xffffff}, 
{label:"Blue", colour: 0x0000ff}, 
{label:"Green", colour: 0x00ff00}, 
{label:"Yellow", colour: 0xffff00}, 
{label:"Orange", colour: 0xff9900}, 
{label:"Purple", colour: 0x6600ff}, 
{label:"Pink", colour: 0xff00ff} 
); 

var aCb:ComboBox = new ComboBox(); 
aCb.dropdownWidth = 210; 
aCb.width = 200; 
aCb.move(150, 50); 
aCb.prompt = "Pick a Colour"; 
aCb.dataProvider = new DataProvider(pickcol); 
aCb.addEventListener(Event.CHANGE, changeHandler); 

addChild(aCb); 

function changeHandler(event:Event):void { 
var colorTransform:ColorTransform = new ColorTransform();
colorTransform.color = aCb.selectedItem.colour;

// then apply the colour transform to your target object
}