Limited Drag and Drop

Hello, quick question

In the game spank the monkey, how would I achieve the drag and drop functionality of the game?

specifications:

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[]Press the hand to enable drag and drop
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]As soon as user drags the hand out of the flash movie, the hand is released, despite whether or not the user’s mouse is still pressed.
[*]If the user’s mouse is still pressed even after coming back to the flash screen the hand does not respond until pressed again.
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I tried multiple things but to no avail.
One of my attempts involved having a constant onMouseMove event handler that flagged a “out_of_bound” area, but mc.onPress = function(){ //drag } does not respond after the initial press.

Help is greatly appreciated. :thumb: