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

[Patrick Lockley]

If you debug textID you should get a movie clip id?

 

As the textid is a flash movie clip at heart - you should be able to do
any of the following (there will be more as well)

 

textID._xscale

textID._yscale

textID._visible

textID._width

textID._height

textID._alpha

 

 

From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
[mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Johnathan
Kemp
Sent: 13 October 2009 09:13
To: Xerte discussion list
Subject: [Xerte] Is it possible to identify and thus modify specific
shapesdrawn as a background to a text icon

 

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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