Copy color from object to another

[p-fizz]

Hi. I’m trying to set a text object’s color to another text object’s color. I wrote this:

The first 3 lines behave like I expected–left’s color was changed to red, right’s text was changed from a “B” to an “A”, and right’s color was changed to green. I thought the 4th line would change right’s color to red (the color of left), following the syntax of line 2.

Thanks for any help.

[MrMen]

No, what you’re doing there is changing the colour of right to the string “A” (you’re doing pretty much the same as action 2).

I don’t believe there is an event action to get the tint of an object, only one to set it. But you can do it with a small bit of JavaScript :

(my two text objects are OldText and NewText)

[p-fizz]

Ah, OK that makes sense that left.String() can’t represent two different things. I don’t know Javascript but your example looks fairly straightforward so I’ll give that a try. Thanks!

[Epicsleeper]

If you don’t need to dynamically access the color, you can use something like this:

[p-fizz]

Thanks for this example, it’s very helpful. I was able to use this idea to use an array of colors that I could match up the values with the object variables.