Help with hitTest

then do _children.your_mc

OK it works, except...

The clips I need to get the names from are inside a larger movie clip, but also within seperate movie clips in the larger one. Is there a way I could get them two levels in? To use your example, something like:

for (var n in mcHolder._children){

The "_children" being the movies that are in the larger movie clip, but contain the clips I'm trying to get the names from.

Actually, I think I got it. ...Maybe. I had a ")" missing in the code.

Thanks Fleece, I tried the first way because I can't use an array for this but I get this error:

**Error** Symbol=periodic_activator, layer=Layer 1, frame=1:Line 6: ')' expected
if(this.hitTest(_root.periodic_table){

Total ActionScript Errors: 1 Reported Errors: 1

Any thoughts?

Thanks Again.

if you put the mc that are not dragged in an mc called mcHolder, you could do this:

dragged_mc.onMouseMove = function () {
for (var n in mcHolder){
if(typeof(mcHolder)=="movieclip"){
if(this.hitTest(mcHolder){
trace(mcHolder._name)
}
}
}
}

or if in different locations, you could indeed push them onto an array and loop through that...

mcArray:Array = new Array()
mcArray.push(mc_1)
mcArray.push(mc_2)
mcArray.push(mc_3)
//
dragged_mc.onMouseMove = function () {
for (var n in mcArray){
if(this.hitTest(mcArray){
trace(mcArray._name)
}
}
}