Wacky! That works with no brackets at all and "fieldClip.setTextFormat"
is evaluated as "leftInfoClip.topLeftTabs.leftTab.tabTitle.setTextFormat".
You got it!
Thank you very much,
Brandon
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Here's another...
Using your movieclip path I have this working...
<code>
function setTextColor(formatName, fieldClip, col, align) {
formatName = new TextFormat();
formatName.color = col;
formatName.align = align;
fieldClip.setTextFormat(formatName);
}
leftInfoClip.topLeftTabs.leftTab.tabTitle.text = "testing color";
_root.onLoad = function(){ //just to test that the function is called
setTextColor(myColor,leftInfoClip.topLeftTabs.leftTab.tabTitle,
0x990000,left);
}
</code>
Gerry
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On May 22, 2006, at 11:04 AM, Brandon Krakowsky/MTC wrote:
> Hello all. This is probably very simple. I'm trying to pass the
> instance
> name of a textfield to a "setTextColor" function which applies a
> TextFormat. The function takes 4 parameters, the new format name, the
> textfield instance name, the textfield color, and the textfield
> alignment.
> Everything is passed correctly except for the textfield instance
> name.
> The absolute path is passed, which means "_level0." is appended to the
> beginning of the full path.
>
> So for instance, I pass
> "leftInfoClip.topLeftTabs.leftTab.tabTitle", where
> "tabTitle" is the actual textfield. when I pass it to the
> "setTextColor"
> function and trace it,
> "_level0.leftInfoClip.topLeftTabs.leftTab.tabTitle"
> is returned. This would be fine except for when I try and evaluate
> the
> variable inside the function with _root[var], it fails. See below:
>
> setTextColor("topLeftTab",leftInfoClip.topLeftTabs.leftTab.tabTitle,
> 0x000000,"left");
>
>
> function setTextColor(formatName, fieldClip, col, align) {
>
> _root[formatName] = new TextFormat();
> _root[formatName].color = col;
> _root[formatName].align = align;
>
> //this is the problem here. I can't remove "_root", because
> that
> is bad syntax. "this" also doesn't work. so I'm left with "_root." +
> "_level0.leftInfoClip.topLeftTabs.leftTab.tabTitle".
> _root[fieldClip].setTextFormat(_root[formatName]);
> }
>
> Thanks,
> Brandon Lee
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