Converting a Flash Button to GrayScale

Hi, I am building a quiz in Flash, the quiz will display a
question and a set of three possible answers. Im just wondering if
its possible once an incorrect answer has been selected (which is a
button) the button can be converted to grayScale???
Any help would be much appreciated.
Ian

if it's a movie clip (or in a movie clip) you can use the
Advanced Color Filter to lower the
stauration of it - can probably be done with Actionscript as
well - but hard to provide details
without knowing how you have wired your document.
Chris Georgenes
Animator
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IanH1982 wrote:
> Hi, I am building a quiz in Flash, the quiz will display
a question and a set
> of three possible answers. Im just wondering if its
possible once an incorrect
> answer has been selected (which is a button) the button
can be converted to
> grayScale???
>
> Any help would be much appreciated.
>
> Ian
>

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>
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>
> Thanks in advance.
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Windows XP it still
> works.
> But in Windows VISTA every button opens a new browser
windows.
>
> Windows VISTA, IE 7, Dreamweaver 8, running the web on
my HD
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Sky
>

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