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Drag and drop objects in Flash

Using Macromedia Flash MX 2004
I would like to know how to drag objects around the screen in flash MX in the same way as is done in this page. Is this an actionscript function, or does it come as a behaviour?
http://www.sorbose.com/sample_75_games/make_faces.swf

Any ideas

Seb

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Aneesh Chopra

yes, it has actionscript functions:

to drag a movieclip, use following code:
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square_mc.onPress = function() {
this.startDrag();
};
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and on mouse release, stop the dragging and check if object being dragged hit the required object:

square_mc.onRelease = function() {
this.stopDrag();
if (this.hitTest(circle_mc)) {
// code if hits the required movieClip
}else{
// code if does not hit the required movieClip
}
};
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- Aneesh Chopra

Aneesh Chopra

matter of few minutes..
:)

SamuelRostol

Hehe, been there done that :)

By the way, stopDrag is a global function, not a movieclip property, so you don't need to use 'this' in front of it

stopDrag(); is sufficient :)

CyanBlue

startDrag()/stopDrag() are both global function and the public methods of the MovieClip class at the same time...
So, you can use either stopDrag() or this.stopDrag() and both should work as it is supposed to be...

CyanBlue

SamuelRostol

Ok, thanx :)

My meaning was just that stopDrag will ALLWAYS stop a drag initiated by startDrag, so the prefix 'this.' will not do anything ;-)