# Bouncing boxes

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/bouncing-boxes/105717>\
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**Created:** [March 29, 2004, 8:56am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/bouncing-boxes/105717 "2004-03-29T08:56:47Z")\
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**Author:** ![peter66](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ce73a5/32.png) [@peter66](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/peter66)\
**Post date:** [March 29, 2004, 8:56am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/bouncing-boxes/105717/1 "2004-03-29T08:56:47Z")

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Hi, I have an interface design that involves a bunch of boxes bouncing around inside a containerMC. The boxes will slow down as the mouse pointer approaches to make clicking on individual boxes easy.

I’ve done 1 or 2 versions of this already and it’s just not happening for me, the boxes seem to get stuck together and I did it really stupidly by doing a new MovieClip for every single box so it was taking ages to publish.

I’m starting again, trying to do things a bit more dynamically…

So, just until I get it working again, I’ve got a new flash document that I drew a small box in, converted the box to a MC and then copy and pasted it until I had 3 boxes. I’ve given each copy a different instance name, “box1”, “box2” & “box3”.

There’s also a dynamic textbox (“boxNum”) inside this (one) MC that will contain a number from 1 to 3.

So anyway, I just want to have these boxes chasing the mouse before I move onto bouncing off each other and walls. What should I do about this mess?

//If statement to determine which numText each box contains  
if (this == \_level0.box1) {  
this.boxNum.text = “1”;  
} else if (this == \_level0.box2) {  
this.boxNum.text = “2”;  
} else if (this == \_level0.box3) {  
this.boxNum.text = “3”;  
}  
//Set some variables  
this.yspeed = 2;  
this.targetx = \_root.\_xmouse;  
this.targety = \_root.\_ymouse;

//Targets for box positions are the mouse cursor  
onMouseMove = function () {  
targetx = \_root.\_xmouse;  
targety = \_root.\_ymouse;  
};

//onEnterframe stuff that moves the boxes  
onEnterFrame = function () {  
this.\_x = (targetx-\_x)/xspeed;  
this.\_y = (targetx-\_y)/yspeed;  
};

Thanks heaps.  
Pete