# Start drag with two movieclips

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/start-drag-with-two-movieclips/10818>\
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**Created:** [January 7, 2003, 10:15pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/start-drag-with-two-movieclips/10818 "2003-01-07T22:15:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![kdzines](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/7ea924/32.png) [@kdzines](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/kdzines)\
**Post date:** [January 7, 2003, 10:15pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/start-drag-with-two-movieclips/10818/1 "2003-01-07T22:15:00Z")

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hi,

I’m working on a website where i wanna use hover captions (great tutorial btw kirupa).

The problem is i need 2 different size caption boxes. However flash seems to hate dragging 2 separate movieclips at the same time. Anyone know how to do it?

tried :

startDrag ( \_root.caption, true);  
startDrag ( \_root.altcaption, true);

on the frame.

also tried putting them inside the movieclips etc…

Please help me!

cheers,

Kdzines

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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:** [January 8, 2003, 12:00am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/start-drag-with-two-movieclips/10818/2 "2003-01-08T00:00:24Z")

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i figured out an alternative in case anyone has the same problem.

Basically i just used the code from the “follow mouse with easing” and then used an if statement to see if the variable was 1 or 0.

this makes a cool hover caption with easing (although if using pixel fonts - wouldn’t use easing).

There we go!

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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:** [January 8, 2003, 12:37am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/start-drag-with-two-movieclips/10818/3 "2003-01-08T00:37:47Z")

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[http://www.kirupaforum.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=11977](http://www.kirupaforum.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=11977)

wasnt posted too long ago

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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:** [January 8, 2003, 2:06am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/start-drag-with-two-movieclips/10818/4 "2003-01-08T02:06:19Z")

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thanks Sen,

That’s what i ended up doing anyway.

Cheers for the help!

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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:** [June 10, 2003, 6:08pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/start-drag-with-two-movieclips/10818/5 "2003-06-10T18:08:31Z")

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LOL wow I just asked this yesterday

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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:** [June 10, 2003, 6:15pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/start-drag-with-two-movieclips/10818/6 "2003-06-10T18:15:53Z")

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[http://www.kirupaforum.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=11977](http://www.kirupaforum.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=11977)

there’s some flas posted their.

look it over.

kd

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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:** [June 10, 2003, 6:25pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/start-drag-with-two-movieclips/10818/7 "2003-06-10T18:25:54Z")

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pardon my ignorance but I don’t see hover catptions with “easing” I see hover captions and I got mine to work just fine, but I’d like them to trail behind the mouse a bit like.

I decided it best to start this on a new thread so I deleted all my other posts to try to clean this thread up a bit.