L'Oreal's map - follow up with more detail

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I am trying again to get a little actionscript help. Two people

responded but I have not heard anything back from them.


I am trying to move the little rectangle in a rectangle over the

little USA map and then have the movements of the rectangle control the

movements of the large map.


1) I am unsure as to when or whether you have to embed a button in a

clip in order to drag it.

2) Unsure as to when the _x, _y coordinates of an item refer to the top

left or to the center of the object.

3) I don't know why the large map moves so sporadically in relation to

the movement of the rectangle. Sometimes it moves as expected and other

times it moves in seemingly the opposite direction. I think it may have

to do with my not understanding where the x,y coordinates refer to.

4) I don't know how to make the movement of the larger map "decelerate"

when it is arriving at its final location. I dug around and see that it

is done with a mouse tracker and a mouse trail object but still have to

find out how to do that.


Once I get this to work, I can then allow the user to click on a state

and then create a new html window with a list of dealers.


I have devised what I think is a method to do something similar to

Loreal but I have no actionscript skills. It is about 7 or 8 lines of

code that tracks the motion of something and then sets the property of

the larger map. Is anyone willing to take a look at it for me?


Jorge -

slipp-nottzianet [dot] com