I played around today with a method named setTint from the fl.motion.Color class. At first I was a bit confused because this method doesn’t return anything contrarily to the interpolateColor method which returns a color in hexadecimal. You have to use setTint in this way:
1 2 3 4 5 | import fl.motion.Color; import flash.geom.ColorTransform; var ct:Color = new Color(); ct.setTint(0xFF0000, 0.5); mc.transform.colorTransform = ct; |
With mc being the displayObject you want it applied on. setTint can be pretty useful for setting a tint on a bitmap and it can also be used with tweens in the same way I used the interpolateColor in a previous post.
#1 by Bruno - May 7th, 2008 at 14:03
hello
thank you very much for this tip. i will use to it to recreate my web site.
#2 by James R Grise - January 20th, 2009 at 02:13
nice, thanks. spent 20 minutes trying to apply setTint directly to my object haha, step back a sec and look at how sombody else does it and the whole function clicks. Thanks you saved me at least another 20 minutes.
#3 by yac - August 1st, 2009 at 19:59
Thanks for that.
In my case I have a dropShadow filter applyed to the dyn.TextField, and when I cuse this colorTransform method it loses its dropShadow effect.
Do anybody knows why that happens?
#4 by yac - August 2nd, 2009 at 11:40
the problem is that the shadow gets white too, with the color Transform.
I’ve applied the dropShadow to a parent movieclip that contains only the textfield and that solves the problem.
thanks !