# Can drag-and-drop recognize transparent areas of external PNGs?

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/can-drag-and-drop-recognize-transparent-areas-of-external-pngs/280018
**Category:** flash
**Created:** [January 21, 2009, 5:43pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/can-drag-and-drop-recognize-transparent-areas-of-external-pngs/280018 "2009-01-21T17:43:14Z")
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### Author: ![Killick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Killick](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Killick)
#### Post date: [January 21, 2009, 5:43pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/can-drag-and-drop-recognize-transparent-areas-of-external-pngs/280018/1 "2009-01-21T17:43:14Z")

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I have a simple Flash movie which loads several external PNG-24 images into movie clips. Each movie clip is partially transparent (using alpha transparency), and made drag-and-droppable. Everything works properly except that for each movie clip, I am able to drag and drop the clip using the transparent space around the image. I want the “grab-able” area of each clip to correpond to only the non-transparent areas of the PNG, not a rectangular box around each movie clip. Is there any way to do this?