ActionScript 3.0 :: Add Text To A Button?
Jul 12, 2010
I am trying to create a button with some text on it that I can specify in code. So far so good. The trouble starts because in the over state I need to change the color of the text. further complicating this is the fact that I need to be able to disable it and when disabled show it's over state.
At first I had a text label and the button and I would change the color manually on mouseOver and was removing the button and text and re-adding what I needed when I disabled and enabled the button. This created some odd situations with buttons getting stuck or not changing back on reenabling.
i then tried to add the correct color to the different sates of the button, in an effort to simplify things using the myButton.upState property. it spat back:
1061: Call to a possibly undefined method addChild through a reference with static type flash.displayisplayObject.
I take this to mean that what i am accessing is some type of read only object.
here is what i have:
Code:
package {
import flash.display.*;
import flash.display.Sprite;
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