Drag and Drop Item Sticking

Question

I'm creating a drag and drop game for grades K-2 and two of
my pieces stick to the mouse when clicked. I'm not sure what the
problem is as I've used the same code for all of my pieces.

The pants1_mc and the glasses_mc are the problems.

pbesong · Accepted Answer

Tried your script and all of the items did the same thing - they stuck to the mouse on MOUSE_UP until I removed "true" from the line that says event.target.startDrag(true);
See if removing true helps for you.

Rothrock · Answer

I think the problem might also be that you are listening for the Mouse Up on each of your draggable items. Instead you should register just one listener on the stage so that if the pointer isn't over your drag when you release it still will be able to "dropIt".

My guess would be that the pants and the glasses are a shape where when you stuck the pointer to the registration point (with the true inside the startDrag) the pointer wasn't actually over a pixel of the artwork. The other shapes weren't like that.

So removing the true might work for you here, but what if you wanted the true? Or what if you were going to constrain the dragging to a specific area and it was possible that the pointer would move off the artwork. You would have this problem again.

So I would add to the pickUp function:

addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_UP,dropIt);
event.target.startDrag()

Then inside the dropIt function

removeEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_UP,dropIt);
stopDrag();

Finally you won't need each of the individual dropIt registrations in your main code.

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