Color slider and actionscript dilemma

Hi, Im making a quiz game (and am currently creating the
authoring flash file where users picks colors etc for the quiz) and
I was wondering how I can make a color slider to pass a variable to
an object which actionscript then changes the color of. Please
help.

there is a color object,
new color(movieclip name)
use setRGB(0xff0034) // in hexadecimal 0x is mandatory, "ff"
- amount of red, "00" is amount of green, "34" is amount of
blue..

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