Placeholder on stage?

Is it possible to designate an area for a draggable movie clip to “snap” back to when a button within said movieclip is pressed? For example, I have a drag and drop function, in which the user drags a small movieclip to a target and upon dropping, it expands. Within the expanded movie clip is a button to “close” the clip to it’s original size. At this time, ideally, I would like the clip to return to the original size AND go back to the area on the stage where it started from, outside of the target. Any recommendations?

chop.

What function do you have now ?

well, all I did was make two frames within the draggable movieclip. The first frame contains the button that is draggable, and when the user drops the clip into the target, the script tells the movieclip to advance to the second frame, in which lies another movieclip, expanding the clip to a larger size, and a button to make the movie clip return to frame 1. I just don’t know how to get the movieclip to go back to where it started from (spot on the stage). Pretty much it’s a poor man’s version of joshua davis’ design of the Trollback site (http://www.trollback.com).

any takaers?

Trollback used actionscript. I’ll have a go at the effect you’re trying to achieve :slight_smile: