FLASH: Button inside a movie clip

[Vince French]

Hey Flashers *grin*


I was wondering if someone could help me with a particular button

problem I can't seem to solve.


I have a Movie Clip (HammerSwing) of a swinging hammer (I know, that

damned hammer again).  Then I created a button (HammerButton) with the

up and over state being the still positions, and the down state being

the Movie Clip of the swing.  So now, I have a button, containing a

movie clip.  So far so good.  But I want to drag this button around (so

that it follows my cursor).  So I must make a movie clip with the

button in the first frame (HammerControlClip).  Please, let me know if

any of this sounds out of sync so far.


Here lies the problem...  I need to be able to get the X coordinate of

the movie clip HammerControlClip when I click it.  Then, based on its

location, I control other movies which are irrelevant to this problem. 

It seems like when I have a button in a movie clip, it doesn't respond

well (erratic clicking behaviour).  When I replace the button in the

movie clip with graphic frames instead, it responds much better

(smoother dragging), but no longer accepts clicks.  I'm just trying to

figure out where the best place for script is.. or how you people do

it.  I can't put mouse events in the Frame script, and I can't script a

movie clip.  I can script a button, but I can't drag it (which I need

to do).  And when I put a button in a movie clip, it gets all wacky. 

Any help would be appreciated.  Thanks.


Vince


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