Re: FLASH: Drag Object, Eh!

[John Croteau]

Hi Dixon,


> http://www.skyrock.co.uk/flash/test.htm  - please take a look

> Can anyone advise me on what is going wrong when I combine two draggable

> objects. I borrowed a script (Scrollable text) from a Flash tutorial

> site and added this to my page along with a small map, made

> navagational by a drawing pin

> Both of these elemnts work fine on there own but when you put both in one

> file the drawing pin map fails to work.  I assume it is because the text

> that can be dragged sets some sort of variable( I am not very good

> at this scripting lark yet)

Only one object can be dragged at a time the scroll script you are using

is drag on almost all the time.


1) Make sure all layers are labeled and invisible MCs are not hidden. It

took me a while to find the control MC.

2) Do not assume we know you setup. How would one know the second drag

object was set up in an invisible MC?


Now the fixes:

Instead of having you change Scroll routines we will just turn it on and

off.

1) Label  the Control MC as Control it is moved off canvas at the upper

left corner.

2) Remove unneeded commands in Up and add a Tell Target Stop to stop the

Scroll drag on Drag On and a TT Play to restart control on Stop Drag.

3) Change the Down pin button to a simple (non drag button).

4) Ungroup (imported?) Up and Down Pin images to improve file size/speed

of pin animation.


ftp://206.107.180.51/drag/


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