# Dragging inside a shape or curve
**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/dragging-inside-a-shape-or-curve/57565
**Category:** Uncategorized
**Created:** [July 14, 2004, 10:55am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/dragging-inside-a-shape-or-curve/57565 "2004-07-14T10:55:11Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@rinopoli](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/rinopoli)
#### Post date: [July 14, 2004, 10:55am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/dragging-inside-a-shape-or-curve/57565/1 "2004-07-14T10:55:11Z")
Hi, does anyone know how to let the user drag an object inside a shape other than a square or on a curve?
Thankz :be:
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 14, 2004, 7:03pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/dragging-inside-a-shape-or-curve/57565/2 "2004-07-14T19:03:27Z")
make the shape or the object you want into a movieclip and use the movieclip.\_droptarget function in flash to define your target
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 14, 2004, 9:12pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/dragging-inside-a-shape-or-curve/57565/3 "2004-07-14T21:12:41Z")
I’ll try this out, thanks :trout:
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 15, 2004, 8:08am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/dragging-inside-a-shape-or-curve/57565/4 "2004-07-15T08:08:29Z")
I’m afraid i missed it. I’m quite new to flash and i did not understand how to use the \_droptarget property…:jail:
someone suggested me to mask layers, but I think this is too much of a trick…
need to study more.
…have you got any other ideas?
Thaanks! :ne: