Drag and Drop Re-order Movie Clips

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Has anyone seen or done anything like this before?

I want to create a Drag and Drop where there are a given number of movie clips and if I drag one of those movie clips vertically above or below another movie clip it will reorder the movie clips. I’m sure it has something to do with hitTest, but I really have no idea where to go from here. I basically have an Actionscript Layer and 1 movie clip in my library of a width of 540x75 with a Linkage of “topicItem”. My stage is 550x400

I can get all the movie clip instances to attach to the stage in the correct order and position. I can drag any of those movie clips up or down. So now I need to figure out how to tell Actionscript that when the currently dragged movie clip “d1” is dragged below movie clips “d2” and “d3” to shift “d2” to the previous “d1._y” and shift “d3” to the previous “d2._y”.

Any suggestions, sites, code?

Here is the current code that I have:


itemX = 5;
itemY = 2.5;
zDepth = 10;
itemCount = 5;
currDepth = 1000;

for (var i = 1; i <= itemCount; i++){
    trace ("hi " + i);
    _root.attachMovie("topicItem", "d" + i, zDepth * i, {_x:itemX, _y:itemY});
    itemY = itemY + 80;
    trace ("d" + i + " = " + this['d' + i]);
    trace("");
    this['d' + i].topicName.text = "Topic " + i;
    
    this['d' + i].onPress = function(){
        startDrag(this,false,5,2.5,5,322.5);
        this.swapDepths(_root.currDepth);
        _root.currDepth++;
        xstart = this._x;
        ystart = this._y;
    }
    
    this['d' + i].onRelease = function(){
        stopDrag();
        this._x = xstart;
        this._y = ystart;
    }
    
    this['d' + i].onReleaseOutside = function(){
        stopDrag();
        this._x = xstart;
        this._y = ystart;  
    }
}

stop();

Thanks in advance.