Re: FLASH: Snap to drag

[Quintin Mills]

Ok, so now how do i find out if there is something in the "target area"

already

and if there is,

snap the file i am dragging back to orgX and orgY


hmmm, this is the question.



Thank you.


Quintin Mills

Kitsch Design


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----- Original Message -----

From: Eric Smollin <

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To: <

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Sent: Thursday, March 23, 2000 3:49 PM

Subject: RE: FLASH: Snap to drag



> You can accomplish this by first getting the original position of the

> dragged movie, and if the drop conditions are not met, tell the movie to

> snap back to the original position. On the timeline of your dragged movie,

> set two variables:

>

> Set Variable: "orgX" = GetProperty("", _x)

> Set Variable: "orgY" = GetProperty("", _y)

>

> Now in the actions of the dragged button you would have something like

this:

>

> On (Press)

>       Start Drag ("")

> End On

> On (Release)

>       Stop Drag

>       If (_droptarget eq "/Target")

>             Set Property ("", X Position) = GetProperty("/Target", _x)

>             Set Property ("", Y Position) = GetProperty("/Target", _y)

>             Go to Next Frame

>       Else

>             Set Property ("", X Position) = orgX

>             Set Property ("", Y Position) = orgY

>       End If

> End On

>

> If the dragged clip meets the conditions (in the example above it would be

> if the dragged movie is dropped on a MC on the main timeline called

> "Target") then stop dragging and snap the dragged MC to the center of the

> droptarget. If the conditions are NOT met (e.g. if the MC is dropped

> somewhere other that the target), snap back to the original position (orgX

> and orgY).

>

> HTH

> -Eric-

>

>

> >What i need to do it drag a movie into the target area.

> >If there is nothing else in that area, release.

> >If there is already something there, position it's x and y exactly where

it

> was first dragged from.

> >Seems simple, but i cannot seem to get it right.

> >I would appreciate it if you could help me out.

>

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