# Dragging external movies

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/dragging-external-movies/14684>\
**Category:** Uncategorized\
**Created:** [March 1, 2003, 8:24am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/dragging-external-movies/14684 "2003-03-01T08:24:45Z")\
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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [March 1, 2003, 8:24am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/dragging-external-movies/14684/1 "2003-03-01T08:24:45Z")

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I’ve been looking for a while on google now and I’ve been unable to find anything on this.

I’m loading an external movie in. Once loaded I want to be able to drag it around within the movie.

I would like it to be a way compatible with Flash 5.

Thank you!

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [March 1, 2003, 8:35am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/dragging-external-movies/14684/2 "2003-03-01T08:35:29Z")

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why don’t you just add **this.startDrag(true);** in the swf being loaded? 🙂

[size=1] **edit.** a little mistake in the code :crazy:[/size]

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [March 1, 2003, 8:36am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/dragging-external-movies/14684/3 "2003-03-01T08:36:42Z")

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Howdy…

Try this… This is FMX only though… I’m too lazy to do that… :rambo:

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [March 1, 2003, 9:41pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/dragging-external-movies/14684/4 "2003-03-01T21:41:47Z")

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Thank you all. I have it working now. It was pretty easy after all!

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [March 2, 2003, 5:56am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/dragging-external-movies/14684/5 "2003-03-02T05:56:25Z")

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Yup… It is easy, but it all depends on where your approach starts… :rambo: