Drag Drop (probably easiest question ever)

I'm new to flash and don't have anyone to ask for help so here I am...

I am just trying to create a draggable object. Easy right? Sure looks like it should be simple. But nope, never for me. So I do this:

on (press) {
startDrag (this);
}
on (release, releaseOutside) {
stopDrag ();
}

then I do Test Movie and when I click and drag, the ENTIRE CANVAS drags. The object I set the action for AND every other object on the canvas moves.

I'm creating this for a classroom and would really appreciate any help/advice I can get! Thanks!

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Community Expert

don't use a button. use a movieclip.

even better, give your movieclip an instance name (say mcBtn), do not attach code to objects and use:

mcBtn.onPress=function(){

this.startDrag();

}

mcBtn.onRelease=mcBtn.onReleaseOutside=function(){

this.stopDrag();

}

t1gAuthor

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Well, I tried that and I am getting errors. I know it must be that I've done something wrong so here are the errors I'm getting.

1120: Access of undefined property Exposition2. Exposition2.onPress=function(){

1120: Access of undefined property Exposition2. Exposition2.onRelease=Exposition2.onReleaseOutside=function(){

Help!

Community Expert

you have no movieclip with instance name Exposition2. flash is case sensitive.

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