Changing the colour of a shape

[ac]

Apologies if I'm missing something but I'm new here...

I'd like to take user input using an Option Input and, based on the choice made, change the colour of the screen background. I couldn't see how to do this in script, so I thought I could place a box at the back of the display instead and change the colour of that. However, I can't see how to do that either as there don't appear to be any script methods for shapes.

it it possible to achieve this effect? If so, how?

Many thanks in advance.

[Hippani]

Hi, not really I'm afraid. On old browsers the shapes are images, so you can't really change the colour.
You probably just need to have shapes in different colours, I'm not sure what you're doing, but that might be messy.
This old tutorial might help you do something.
www.hippostudios.co/?S=Animator&P=AnimatorHelp&Page=HelpTutorialsTitle.HelpVideoTutorials&YouTube=57NLamBvfW4&Title=~HelpVT14

[ac]

Thought as much! Thanks for responding anyway. The idea was to create a different coloured background to the screen for a quiz I use in my school: green background for green group, red for red group, etc. I built this in Flash a few years ago and simply run a copy for each group, changing the background colour as I set the quiz going. The hope was that I could move it relatively seamlessly to HTML5 and for inclusion on the school website if necessary.

I could duplicate the code in the timeline with different coloured backgrounds, but this is very messy. Could I do it by duplicating the shape (as a development of the stars "duplicate and delete" demo? I'm struggling to know where to start with that approach, though.

Thanks again.

[Hippani]

You could have an image viewer, turn off auto play and then set different background. I've added to the suggestion list the idea of changing the colour of a box, which should be possible on all browsers.

[Hippani]

OK, one of our dev guys decided to add this.

Add a HTML object, give it a script ID.

then use this new function.

HTMLSetColor("Script ID","#000000");

[Hippani]

Note: You'll need to update your software to the latest version.

[ac]

Thank you very much for this - it works perfectly. Incidentally, I found out that I could define 3 squares off screen, each a different colour and, after turning timeline off for each, was able to move and resize it as a background for the window. Your solution is, of course, much neater and quicker!

Many thanks again.

Andy