Changing Colors in Flah WITHOUT Buttons

ActionScript problems

[Brickface]

I'm having a lot of problems learning ActionScript, and have exhausted the tutorials and dictionary entries that I've found.

I have a Flash movie wherein I want an element to change color based on a variable recieved from a .php file and then, a few frames later, change to a color stated explicitly in the code.

My php script generates "&color=0x000000" (without the quotes), and running in debug mode, the variable is indeed being imported into global without any problems.

The following code works:

loadVariablesNum("variables.php", 0);
var myColor = new Color(This_Is_The_Movie_Instance);
myColor.setRGB(color);

The movie changes color nicely.

A few frames later, I have this code:

loadVariablesNum("variables.php", 0);
var myColor = new Color(This_Is_The_Movie_Instance);
myColor.setRGB("0xffffff");

What I want it to do, is change the movie to the color "000000", but it doesn't do anything... can anyone help me find out why?

Any suggestions would be very helpful.

[Richard_N]

loadVariablesNum("variables.php", 0);
var myColor = new Color(This_Is_The_Movie_Instance);
myColor.setRGB("0xffffff");

OK quick look may be wrong, why do you have the first line as your referencing a local variable?

would not this or something like it do it?

onEnterFrame = function(){
var myNewColor = new Color(This_Is_The_Movie_Instance);
myNewColor.setRGB("0xffffff");
}