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Setting typed properties at runtime?

Apologies if this question has already been asked somewhere but in that the search function is not fully operational I am unable to search extensively. Anyway, I need to set the properties of a label at runtime. eg. MyLabel.Font.Color
The information needed to set the colour is held in a string which is read in from a text file at runtime. The text in the string is clRed and I'm trying to use it while dynamically creating the label component. Delphi seems to complain about a type mismatch (TColor and string) and I'm not entirely sure how to get around it.
(Incidentally - it's not actually the colour of text that I'm trying to change, it's a custom component which I created myself and so this is an easier example to explain!)
Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Xanthe

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Brilliant! I see however, that the question I asked was not as straight forward as I had thought. You will notice that I said that the actual application was not to do with colour but with a custom component I have written, I see now that I will have to modify the code I have written for this component to allow it to have a function to change between a string and a TArrowType(a thing I use in my component)....although how I do that - no idea?! Anyway, I'll have a try and thanks again for your help and your quick response!
Xanthe