Drag only one button

1

Hi!
what is the right action script to drag a particular button without draging others. If I put the action script that I wrote below, it will let me to drag everything, even my background.
Thanks a lot!!!

–action script–

on (press) {
this.startDrag()
}
on (release) {
this.stopDrag()
}

2

Try this…

on (press) {
startDrag(this)
}
on (release) {
stopDrag()
}

PS: I am moving this thread to the Actionscript forum as this has nothing to do with HTML or Javascript and you posted it in the HTML/Javascript forum.

3

Thanks a lot! I will post in the right place next time!
Thanks again!

4

No problem. Glad I could help:)

5

I think you may find that the background is being dragged because the button is sitting on the main timeline (in which case this.startDrag() and startDrag(this) will both reference _root).

I’d suggest you place the button inside an instance of a movie clip: select the instance of the button, press F8 and choose Movie Clip. Then either this.startDrag() and startDrag(this) will work.

6

Ah yes, you are completely right there. For some reason that thought never popped into my head.

Thanks for the correction jsk.

7

Absolutely right jsk. When you define an on (something) event, and if you use this, you refer to the clip containing the button (the _root in this case).

In MX, there’s another way to solve this: declare a dynamic even handler in the timeline. For instance:

but.onPress=startDrag;

pom :asian: