Changing Dynamic Text Field Color

[CowAttack]

Is it possible to change the color of a dynamic text field through Actionscript? I'm using 2.0. I know how to change a button or mc color, but not a text field. The text field is currently defined as a string. Thanks.

[Ned Murphy]

Yes it is possible, but what do you want to change, the text color or the text field background color?

[CowAttack]

Just the text color. The text background should stay transparent.

[Ned Murphy]

Try:

tField.textColor = 0xFF0000; // red text

where tField is whatever instance name you gave to the TextField

[CowAttack]

It gives the error: "There is no property with the name 'textColor.'"

[Ned Murphy]

The "tField" in my example is not the text string, it is the text field instance name. In what you did you are trying to change the string itself, which does not have a textColor property.

[CowAttack]

Does a string have anything equivalent to a textColor property or can its color not be modified?

[Ned Murphy · Accepted solution]

The color of the string text displayed can be modified, but not the color of the string. Strings are pretty much just arrays of characters... aka data. To view a string on the stage it needs to be placed in a TextField. The TextField is the place where the visual attributes of a string are managed (font, size, color, etc).

Textfields have numerous properties, one of which is the text. The text property is assigned the string value that you equate it to.

TextField.text = String

[CowAttack]

Thanks for your help. This got me where I needed to be. Awesome!