Text Scroll Question about BG 2

[Firehawk734]

Hi,

I made a very basic text scroller on my own FINALLY!.
I am using Flash MX.

I made a text field with 2 buttons to control it. My question is that the background of the text field is always white. how do i change the color to blend in with the rest of my movie??

I am new to MX and actionscript and stuff so bare with me. THX.

 

[oldnewbie]

Your textfield does have an instance name then?

Try the following:

my_textfield.backgroundColor = "0x00ccff";

Replace my_textfield with the instance name of your textfield, and the color code to whatever is your background set to! Regards,

 

[rgstewart]

Either that or just turn the BG option on the textfield off ...

 

[Firehawk734]

First of all...

Where is the textfield BG option so that I can turn it on/off? If its on the properties menu, WHERE?

Second,

My instance name is newsText So if I put newsText.backgroundcolor="hexcode"
Where does it go??? Just as a separate actionscript on the textfield?

Thx for the help

 

[Firehawk734]

Nevermind, I just figured it out. Theres a "show border" option.

I turned it off and the white bg of the text field disappear. Thx for the help gang.

I shall be back with more.. muahahaha

 

[oldnewbie]

Background tab is the icon left of the variable box in the properties.

As for the AS newsText.backgroundcolor="hexcode"
, just put it on the first frame of your movie. Regards,