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The Darnest Thing...; Color won't stay on my text!
Topic Started: Oct 25 2004, 05:07 PM (94 Views)
akpaintslinger
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I'm creating a text for a movie opening... I make the fill of the text white, and the line color white aswell. It all looks fine when I'm typing it with the text tool, but when I switch to the arrow tool, the text turns purple! I've tried everything to fix it, I've restarted Flash 5, I've re-written the words, I've even made whole new frames and layers! It won't stop being purple!!

Does anyone know a way to fix this!?
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chluaid
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*edit* oops! sorry I've just noticed you're using Flash 5.. the points below should still help you out though. I'll try to recreate your steps in Flash 5 to see if I can help. Meantime, read on..

hmm.. sounds like a bug to me, and when Flash starts bugging, you may like to try different ways of doing something to get it working. One thing first.. the line colour doesn't apply to text, it's the fill colour that your text will become.

First up, make sure the text is selected (after you've typed it) and try changing its colour in other ways:

  • from the Color Mixer panel (Shift F9)
  • from the Property Inspector (Shift F3)
  • from the Fill Color swatch in the Tools Panel.
try changing it with all of these methods.

Then as a last resort if all those don't work, you could simply break the text apart (Select it and press Ctrl B twice). After you do this, it's not really text anymore, but artwork.. so you won't be able to edit it with the Text tool.

Hope it works for you somehow... post here with your results to let us know if you got it working. Good luck :bitey:
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akpaintslinger
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Ah! Thanks, Chluaid!

After many hours of deliberation, I've come to the conclusion that I had bumped the outline color box next to the layer that I was putting the text on! I discovered this while carefully scouring my screen for clues. :P

False alarm! No bugs!
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