# Help with if, else
**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-with-if-else/28366
**Category:** Uncategorized
**Created:** [August 13, 2003, 12:50am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-with-if-else/28366 "2003-08-13T00:50:00Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@smiddy](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/smiddy)
#### Post date: [August 13, 2003, 12:50am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-with-if-else/28366/1 "2003-08-13T00:50:00Z")
im trying to make a drag and drop program that is supposed to be used as a floorplaning thing but i cannot get an if, else statement to work. what i want to happen is if it is the original item it will create a duplicate of it when clicked on but if it is a duplicate of it it will drag and drop. the following is what i have written on the object.
[AS]on (press) {
if (name == “chair”) {
i = i+1;
duplicateMovieClip(\_root.chair, “chair”+i, i);
} else {
startDrag(this);
}
}
on (release) {
stopDrag();
}[/AS]
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [August 13, 2003, 1:28am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-with-if-else/28366/2 "2003-08-13T01:28:32Z")
There’s a little typo…
[AS]on (press) {
if ( **\_name** == “chair”) {
i = i+1;
duplicateMovieClip(\_root.chair, “chair”+i, i);
} else {
startDrag(this);
}
}
on (release) {
stopDrag();
}[/AS]
[http://www.macromedia.com/support/flash/action\_scripts/actionscript\_dictionary/actionscript\_dictionary541.html](http://www.macromedia.com/support/flash/action_scripts/actionscript_dictionary/actionscript_dictionary541.html)
Also, please use [**AS][**/AS] tags and format the code correctly as it’s easier to read. Thanks.
And finally, welcome to kirupa forum. 😉
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [August 13, 2003, 4:05am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-with-if-else/28366/3 "2003-08-13T04:05:05Z")
Ok cool, it works now. I copied the action script for some other objects (wall, desk etc) but whenever i put one in it deletes one of the other objects (eg i put a wall in and then when i go to put a desk in it deletes the wall). How can i fix this?
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [August 13, 2003, 4:10am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-with-if-else/28366/4 "2003-08-13T04:10:13Z")
its a problem with the depth, it removes one to make room for the other.
to fix it, i recomend creating seperate variables for each object
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [August 13, 2003, 4:23am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-with-if-else/28366/5 "2003-08-13T04:23:52Z")
the seperate variables thingy didn’t work
this is what i wrote for the wall
[AS]
on (press)
{ if (\_name == “wall”)
{
x = x + 1;
duplicateMovieClip (\_root.wall, “wall” + x, x);
}
else
{
startDrag(this);
}
}
on(release)
{
stopDrag();
}
[/AS]
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [August 13, 2003, 5:04am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-with-if-else/28366/6 "2003-08-13T05:04:46Z")
Don’t create different variables, you use the same variable instead.
[AS]on (press) {
if ( **\_name** == “chair”) {
\_parent.depth++;
this.duplicateMovieClip(“chair”+\_parent.depth, \_parent.depth);
} else {
this.startDrag();
}
}
on (release) {
this.stopDrag();
}
//
on (press) {
if ( **\_name** == “wall”) {
\_parent.depth++;
this.duplicateMovieClip(“wall”+\_parent.depth, \_parent.depth);
} else {
this.startDrag();
}
}
on (release) {
this.stopDrag();
}[/AS]