[Xerte] Is it possible to identify and thus modify specific shapes drawn as a background to a text icon

[Johnathan Kemp]

I have a text icon (textID) 
I know that I can use
 
textID.beginFill(0xFFFFCC, 100);
textID.lineStyle(1,0x000000,100);
textID.drawRect(0,0,100,10,20);
 
to draw a rectangular background, giving me a rectangle that is much
wider than it is high.
 
but if I then do
 
textID.drawRect(0,0,10,100,20);
 
it does not replace the original rectangle, it adds a further rectangle,
higher than it is wide.
 
What I want to be able to do is to draw a background and then later
change the colour or alpha setting of that background.
An alternative would be to add or remove a glow.
 
So is there a way to either address the original rectangle so that I can
change its properties, or alternatively delete or erase the rectangle so
that I can redraw another one, without deleting the text icon?
 
Kind regards
 
Johnathan

Johnathan Kemp
ICT Development Coordinator
Connexions Staffordshire
www.cxstaffs.co.uk <http://www.cxstaffs.co.uk/> 
01785 355714


 

 
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