If you look through the list of actions, you will see an entire category of Color actions. Within the category, there is a Color action for each of the standard colors, for example: Color red, Color blue, Color lime. If you use this action in a button, any selected item will be colored when the button is clicked. To make this action more specific, you can precede it by a Select action. You will find the Select actions in the "All" category of possible actions. You might use Select Object "picture name" followed by Color "purple" to color a specific graphic on the page. |
| The Color action works by accessing Colorize, one of the options you can set by Control+Clicking a floating graphic. How intense the color is depends upon the original color of the item. Often it is very washed out. However, if the item was originally the standard color Gray, then any of the Color commands will color it a nice bright shade of the chosen color! |
| Of course, you could use the Paint Bucket in Paint mode to color images. However, these will be part of the background, and cannot be animated. They also could not have sounds. Using the Color button action gives you a way to color floating graphics, the kind you insert in the default Design mode in IPS3. You can even animate these graphics, and then have a student change the color by using this button action! |
| Download an example activity, Using the Color Action to see how this might be used in an interactive project. After reading the notes, also download and check out two Goodies that make use of this button action. They are Paint the Egg , and Plant A Garden. |
