Re: FLASH: drag movie clip questions

[Helen Triolo]

Cheri Harder wrote:

> 

> Hi, Helen.

> 

> I usually put the button inside the mc I'm dragging, then the target can

> just be blank.  (In fact, usually I make the graphic, F8 it to make it a

> button, then F8 it again to make it a MC) As for the drop action....it looks

> fine to me, am unsure what is happening.  I just tried it in fact & copied

> your code into my button & it dropped on release.  Weird!  If you want me to

> look at it, feel free to shoot me a copy!

> 

Thanks, Cheri.  I must've been looking at this too much today--none of

it is making sense to me now, and it was all working so well earlier

this afternoon.  Back to a more basic question:  how is a movie clip

dragged?  I did it earlier by putting a movieclip on one layer, an

invisible button of the same (large) size on the layer above it, and

assigning the drag/stopdrag commands to the button (onPress/onRelease). 

It worked, but I don't see how now.  Does the invisible button

automatically stay over the mc as it drags (it must, or it wouldn't

work, right?)  It would make more sense if the button were inside the

mc, as you suggested, but I didn't do that--is that the "standard" way

to drag a mc? I tried converting the button to a mc, as you suggested,

but then there are no onPress/OnRelease conditions to attach the drag

actions to.  What I really want to do is to drag a mc up and down from a

control next to it, so I was going to use a mc-and-button as my control

and then write actionscript to have the other mc follow the control mc. 

Is there an easier way to do this?  Maybe I should do something else and

come back to this tomorrow... Thanks to you and Tim for your help and

suggestions thus far. (I tried adding release outside, Tim, and then it

went really wacky--the whole movie followed the mouse when I let up... I

really must be missing something basic).


Regards,

Helen

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