changing color of textfield inside movie clip

[ladyofbenjamin]

okay, i have a feeling this is going to be a stupid simple answer but i am just not getting it..... i have a textfield inside movie clip i am using like a button. i want to roll over the movie clip and have the text change color from grey to blue. i got that part to work. but i cannot for life of me get it to change back when i roll off. i've been trying to think of an if/else statement but can't figure out what to say for the 'if' part. well, IF the mouse is over the movie clip, duh... isn't that what the "onRollOver" means?

the second part is i will want the color to go Blue if i actually click on the movie clip, and then will want it to go back to grey if i click on a different clip, so i'll have to delete out the color change somehow....

.... and i just can't figure out how to actionscript this...

here's what i have:

_root.attachMovie("test_mc", "test", _root.getNextHighestDepth());
test_mc._x=50
test_mc._y=50

test.onRollOver = function() {
    //test.test_txt.textColor = 0x0944b3;
    var myColor:Color = new Color (test.test_txt)
    myColor.setRGB(0x0944b3);
    }

test.onRollOut = function() {
    test.test_txt.textColor = 0x999999;
}

the "onRollOut" doesn't work at all. notice i can change the color in two ways, one is commented out. don't know which way might be better.....i thought by using variable i could use a delete variable, but couldn't get that to work either...

can someone help me get my code right? this should be so simple, don't know why i can't get it..... thanks....

[snapple]

The problem is, where you actually create your new Colour object, is inside the braces, it's scope is limited to the body of the cdoe where is was first declared (i.e. the objects scope is limited to your onRollOver() function).

I bet if you create another colour object in your rollOut function, it will work (or declare your colour object outside of both).

If i were you, go for the text colour option. Your taking up more menory by creating instances of the Colour class everywhere.

Regards, snapple

[ladyofbenjamin]

bless you i knew it would be something easy i missed.... had to use the color class to make it work, dunno why, but i got it and that's what counts! thanks again!!!