Make dynamic mc draggable

Question

Hi All,
I have some code to drag and drop a movieclip. The code works
ok if it
is inside the movieclip and in my old flash photo gallery the
clips were
put in manually and the photos added by xml.
onClipEvent (mouseDown) {
if (this.hitTest(_root._xmouse, _root._ymouse)) {
this.setDepthTo(kTop)
this.startDrag();
onClipEvent (mouseUp) {
if (this.hitTest(_root._xmouse, _root._ymouse)) {
this.stopDrag();
In my new slideshow I am adding the photos using xml and
dynamically
creating the movieclip and loading the photos. Therefore,
there is no
physical movieclip to add code to manually. How can I add
this code to
the movieclip as it is created and loaded so that it becomes
draggable?
Or, how do I make a dynamically loaded movieclip loaded with
a jpeg
draggable?
Thanks for any advice,
Jeff C

Answer 1

Thanks Blemmo,
I put the code in the 'onLoadInit' function and it works a
treat. Thanks
for the tip.
targetMC.onMouseDown = function(){
if (this.hitTest(_root._xmouse, _root._ymouse)) {
var nextDepth:Number = this.getNextHighestDepth();
this.setDepthTo(nextDepth)
this.startDrag();
targetMC.onMouseUp = function(){
if (this.hitTest(_root._xmouse, _root._ymouse)) {
this.stopDrag();
Thanks,
Jeff C.
blemmo wrote:
>Those clip events have a similar expression in dot
syntax. For the mouse events
>it's
> mc_instance.onMouseDown
> and
> mc_instance.onMouseUp
>
> So you could use your old code with those:
> --
> mc_instance.onMouseDown = function(){
> if (this.hitTest(_root._xmouse, _root._ymouse)) {
> this.setDepthTo(kTop)
> this.startDrag();
> }
> }
> --
>
> Just make sure the jpg is already loaded, because a call
to loadMovie can
>remove the events assigned to the MC. So it's safer to
use some preloading code
>or the MovieClipLoader, and assign the mouse events when
the loading is
>finished.
>
> hth,
> blemmo
>
>
>