You may wish to do the following tutorials first: Changing the colour of a movie clip Changing the cursor
The aim of the tutorial is to learn how to create a colouring-in book in flash. Included below is all the actionscript you need to create your own paint set.
Step One: Frame one
The two lines of script are attached to frame one of the Timeline: The top line of actionScript hides the mouse cursor and the second line retrieves the colour of the paintbrush head and stores it as new information called: myColor
Mouse.hide();
myColor = new Color(_root.brush.head);
Step Two: Object to be painted
The object that you wish to paint must be a button. Each instance must have a unique instance name. In this example the name is nose.
on (release) {
var paint = new Color("_root.nose");
paint.setRGB(_root.myColor.getRGB());
}
Note: The object acquires the new colour from the variable previously set in frame 1 of the timeline: myColor
Step three: Paint Buttons
The coloured paint buttons set the colour of the paintbrush head and set the input box to display the word brown (line 4).
on (rollOver) {
paint = new Color(_root.brush.head);
paint.setRGB(0xff9966);
text = "brown";
}
Note: Each paintbrush button has its own RGB colour, and the word to be displayed in the output box (brown) is also different. Otherwise the script for each button is identical.
Step four: Input box
The input box has a variable name of: text
Step five: Cursor (paintbrush)
On the stage there is an Movie Clip with an instance name of: brush
This is attached to the cursor with the following actionscript:
onClipEvent (enterFrame) {
startDrag("", true);
}
Step six: Paint Head
Inside the instance of the brush (the cursor) is a movie clip called with
an instance name of: head
There is no script attached to this paint head.
The path to this is:
_root.brush.head
This changes colour when you rollover the paint colour buttons and is referred to by the paint buttons (in step three above):
paint = new Color(_root.brush.head); // see step three above
If the brush head was not nested inside the brush handle the entire brush would change colour instead of the head only.
