Flash Help!!

[JacobHaug]

OK here is a really hard question for you guys. I really don't think you guys will be able to answer this but here it goes anyway.

I am making a new website!! But I am having difficulties with one part of the website. I searched google for 3 days now, but can't find what I am looking for. I have a website which has a top part and a bottom part and some buttons. All of these are movie clips, which have nice gradients on them. OK click on the movie clip, and under the color settings you can choose advanced and tent the red, blue, green, and even the alpha. I won't to have 3 buttons at the top that the user can click, and then the color of my website will change. But when I search google I find something close to what I am talking about, but I loose my gradient when I click on it because it does not tent my website, it changes the color to a solid color. So I am looking for some action script code that will change the tent color of my website. Please help me and let me know wither this is possible.

Here is the code I am working with currently, that messes everything up.

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on (release) {
    var colorful = new Color("_root.Test_button");
    colorful.setRGB(0x003366);
}

Here is the code I was think about using, but have not been able to get it working.

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myColorTransform   = new Object(); 
 myColorTransform  .ra =   50  ; 
 myColorTransform  .rb =   244  ; 
 myColorTransform  .ga =   40  ; 
 myColorTransform  .gb =   112  ; 
 myColorTransform  .ba =   12  ; 
 myColorTransform  .bb =   90  ; 
 myColorTransform  .aa =   40  ; 
 myColorTransform  .ab =   70  ;

I have no ideal what is wrong. Please SOMEONE, ANYONE, help me fix this thing before I start to go CRAZY!!

[rusty149]

You have got me thinking i have an idea and will get back to you asap after ihave had a think about it in the mean time hiope you get it fixed!
rusty
p.s ask justin

[Legacy_Staff]

I've seen this done before, but not with Flash.
Every time I've seen it, it was done using a style sheet (external, so it's applied to the whole site).

[JacobHaug]

Yeah I would use a style sheet, but the new site is going to be in flash. You know. I also would just have 3 different websites, one for each color. But who wants to do that. 3 Times more updating. I need to know how to change the tint color of a movie clip in flash. The code above is supposed to do just that I just can't get it working.

[JacobHaug]

Rusty you thought of anything yet?

[rusty149]

I have just been looking though a couuple of books that i have i have found nothing in their, i was just trying to put the same thing together myself quickly i will get back to you if i have any more thoughts hope you sort it out first though!

on (release) {
var colorful = new Color("_root.Test_button");
colorful.setRGB(0x003366);
}
that bit of code their shouldent the _root. be outside of the (); statement not sure their

[JacobHaug]

No that code is right. It is just that code will change the color of my movie clip to a solid color, which means my nice gradient is gone So I need to figure out how to work the second code their which will tint the movie clip to another color, keeping the gradient!!

[rusty149]

Ok no worrys i will cary on having a think!

[JacobHaug]

Thanks