How do I get an attached movie to drag with its parent & not move independently.

Question

Hi there, I was hoping someone can help me.

I would like to attach (using A3) a movie clip to a draggable movie clip. I has set up a movie clip using startDrag() – all works fine. But I would like to be able to dynamically place a movie clip inside it so that it too drags. I’ve got it to partly work – you can drag the original movie clip around and the attached movie clip (using aadChild) moves too. But if I grab the attached movie clip instead of the original clip it moves independently.

Is there a way of getting a movie clip inside the draggable movie clip and have it fixed in place and not move if you happen to attempt to drag it.

Cheers

Ned Murphy · Accepted Answer

Show the code you are using for assigning the drag activity as well as that for adding the child to the object that has the drag activity assigned to it. It sounds like you might be assigning the startDrag to the event.target rather than the event.currentTarget.

Anonymous · Answer

You could also disable mouse events for the children by using:

parent_mc.mouseChildren = false;

This will ensure that all mouse events are captured by the parent and don't get intercepted by the children.

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