Dragging sprites from a window to another???

Question

Hello,
How can I drag moveable sprites from a window (miaw) to
another? I have two layered windows. I want to drag a sprite from
the window on bottom to the window on top (miaw). The problem is
that the sprite stays behind the target window...
- Stefu

Answer 1

You've given me a challenge. I'm going to try to program
this. I don't
think it would be too difficult. A mouse down on your
moveable sprite
should set a flag that would make the MIAW look for the mouse
passing over
it. When that flag is set and the mouse is over the MIAW, a
sprite from the
miaw can track the mouse movement just as it would in the
main movie or
other MIAW. You could also load the image of the member of
the sprite from
the first window into a variable and send it to the MIAW,
create a cast
member, assign that image to the member and assign it to a
sprite so it can
be set to the location of the mouse. A small detail: you need
to save the
offset of the mouse loc relative to the original sprite and
use that offset
to place the new sprite relative to the mouse.
If you understand any of this you win the grand prize. But if
I have time
to do a mock up of this before you get another answer I'll
post the code.
It really should take that many lines. I vaguely remember
having to do this
on a project back in about '98 but it'd be easier to recreate
it rather than
search the archives to find it.
Craig Wollman
Lingo Specialist
Word of Mouth Productions
212-928-9581
www.wordofmouthpros.com
"Stefu80" <[email protected]> wrote in
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> Hello,
>
> How can I drag moveable sprites from a window (miaw) to
another? I have
> two
> layered windows. I want to drag a sprite from the window
on bottom to the
> window on top (miaw). The problem is that the sprite
stays behind the
> target
> window...
>
> - Stefu
>