Grouping movie clips

[QuantumChicken]

Can movie clips be grouped together yet maintain their individual properties?

Here's what I'm looking to do. Let's say I want movie clip A and movie clip B. On the stage I draw some shape, convert it to a symbol > Movie clip and give it an instance name of clipA. I then create a second graphic and convert it to a symbol > Movie Clip and give it an instance name of clipB. I then move clipB to where it's centered over clipA. I then select both clips and group them together.

The problem I'm running into is when I attempt to create a MouseDrag event for clipB, only clipB gets dragged. clipA does not get dragged with clipB even though I grouped them together. I need the clips to act as one entity yet maintain their individuality so if I hover the mouse over clipB it responds with some action, but when I hover over clipA, nothing happens.

Hope this makes sense. Let me know if you need further detail and I'll be happy to provide.

[nezarov · Accepted solution]

group won't work in runtime.. what you need is to select A & B and convert them to a movieClip, then give it an instance name let's say "my_mc" and use my_mc.startDrag()..

and you can use my_mc.clipName.property if you want to change any property of the my_mc's children (clipA & clipB).

[QuantumChicken]

Thank you very much!

[nezarov]

You're welcome my friend.