Complicated drap and drop

Question

Hello, I am trying to do something with my drag and drop game
that is too complicated for me to find on any tutorial.
I am trying to set it up so that when the item is being
dragged and it is over the correct drop area, the item blinks
(which I have animated on the 2nd frame and beyond in each item).
The problem is, I can't seem to run a hitTest while the item is
being dragged, or onPress of the item. I have even tried to set an
interval so that my indicator function runs every 50 milliseconds.
I have included the sample script below, if anyone could help me it
would be greatly appreciated.
//------//var intervalId:Number
function indicator(item,labels){
if(eval(item).target_mc.hitTest(eval(labels).target_mc)){
eval(item).gotoAndStop(2);
//-------//intervalId = setInterval(indicator, 50);
function labelsTest(item,labels){
eval(item).stopDrag();
if(eval(item).target_mc.hitTest(eval(labels).target_mc)){
eval(labels).gotoAndStop(2);
eval(item).enabled=false;
eval(item)._visible=false;
counter++;
if (counter==7){gotoAndStop("continue");
item1_mc.onPress = function () {
item1_mc.startDrag();
item1_mc.swapDepths(this.getNextHighestDepth());
indicator("item1_mc","label1_mc");
item1_mc.onRelease = function () {
labelsTest("item1_mc","label1_mc");
}

Answer 1

Allright, the reason why I am setting them as strings is
because I have a lot more movie clip(draggable items) than I
included the code for. I have tried a couple of your suggestions
and it doesn't seem like the hitTest is operating at all while the
mouse is pressed. here are a couple things that I have tried
function indicator(item,labels){
if(eval(item).target_mc.hitTest(eval(labels).target_mc)){
eval(item).gotoAndPlay(2);
function labelsTest(item,labels){
eval(item).stopDrag();
if(eval(item).target_mc.hitTest(eval(labels).target_mc)){
eval(labels).gotoAndStop(2);
eval(item)._x=eval(labels)._x;
eval(item)._y=eval(labels)._y;
eval(item).enabled=false;
eval(item)._visible=false;
clearinterval(intervalId);
counter++;
if (counter==7){gotoAndStop("continue");
item1_mc.onPress = function () {
item1_mc.startDrag();
item1_mc.swapDepths(this.getNextHighestDepth());
var intervalId:Number
indicator("item1_mc","label1_mc");
intervalId = setInterval(indicator, 50);
I have also tried to set my interval like this
intervalId = setInterval(indicator("item1_mc","label1_mc"),
50);
Thanks a bunch for your feedback on this,