I am making a virtual stock in Flash, with a number of shelfs each containing some pallets.
I have made the pallets as mc's, and I would like to be able to drag and move to empty spaces on one of the shelfs.
When I get a little further, I will load the pallets positions and descriptive data from a xml file provided from a DB via a webservice, which I should write back to, when I move a pallet to a new space.
I hope you get the point...
So what I want, is some help to the actionscript for the dragging part:
when mc is dragged
if dropTarget = empty space
snap to emty space
(at some point - save new position to DB via a xml webservice)
else
snap to original position
I found a similar question here on Experts Exchange Q_20566450 - but an answer was never provided. Hope somebody can help.
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Thanks - but it doesn't work for me - I can startDrag, but it doesn't stopDrag on release.
Just to be shure I'm getting this right.
I paste your actionscript into the first frame of the movie.
I create a movieclip with instance name "pallet1_mc"
emptyspaces is just a variable declaring the position of empty spaces.
Hi billystyx
For some reason it didn't work for me - I don't know why.
A found another way to solve it - but thanks for the help anyway.
My solution looks like this:
Actionscript on the pallet mc:
on (press) {
startDrag(this);
}
on (release) {
if (eval(this._droptarget) == _root.free) {
stopDrag();
this._x = _root.free._x;
this._y = _root.free._y;
} else {
stopDrag();
this._x = _root.orgXpos;
this._y = _root.orgYpos;
}
}
orgXpos and orgYpos is declared in frame 1 in the movie.
But I still need to think of what to do, if there is more than 1 free pallet space.
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by: BillystyxPosted on 2005-05-10 at 06:51:18ID: 13968321
emptyspaces=[50,50],[50,10
pallet1_mc.onPress = function() {
pallet1_mc.startDrag(true)
this.oldX=pallet1._x;
this.oldY=pallet1._y;
};
pallet1_mc.onRelease = function() {
for(i=0;i<emptyspaces;i++)
if(pallet1.hitTest(emptysp
pallet1_mc.stopDrag();
this.hit=true;
emptyspaces.splice(i,1);
}
}
if(this.hit!=true){
pallet1_mc._x=oldX;
pallet1_mc._y=oldY;
}
this.hit=false;
};
as a simple drag and test solution
Billystyx