Please can anyone solve this problem...it's taking over my life!!

Question

Hi, I hope someone can hep me with this as it's driving me crazy!!...I have a magnify glass effect for my main movie and everything is working great, except I need the magnify glass to stay within certain boundaries on the stage...basically when someone moves there mouse away from the flash movie in the centre of the page in a browser, it cuts off the glass and it looks funny (see www.zoeglazebrook.co.uk)...
Kglad has very kindly donated many hours to trying to solve this but it still isn't working unfortunately.
This is the code on the main timeline, and I just need to add in 125, 127, 1095, 775 coordinates in there to make it not go past these points on the stage:
var moveGlass:Number;
magnifyingGlass.onPress = function() {
    moveGlass = setInterval(startGlass,1);
function startGlass() {
    magnifyingGlass._x = _root._xmouse;
    magnifyingGlass._y = _root._ymouse;
magnifyingGlass.onEnterFrame = function(){
     this.largeobject._x = (this._parent.original._x-this._x)*2;
     this.largeobject._y = (this._parent.original._y-this._y)*2;

Answer 1

I'm not sure I understand your question.
I think you are asking about how once you start clicking it doesn't go off? You can add something like this:
magnifyingGlass.onRelease=magnifyingGlass.onReleaseOutside=function(){
delete this.onEnterFrame;
If I'm following you correctly. Or not.
I'm actually more annoyed by also having the pointer still show. So you might add a Mouse.hide() when they press and a Mouse.unhide() when they release. BTW, you need the onReleaseOutside because if you are limiting where the magnifying glass can be dragged then the pointer might not be above the glass when they release. Most people forget the onReleaseOutside and it causes a lot of problems.
Also I'm confused about your confusion of "...whether it's better to have a start drag on there instead."
startDrag() does just that. It takes the item that is referenced and makes it follow the pointer. And it also gives you an easy way to limit the bounds of that dragging to a rectangle. However you can only drag one thing at a time using startDrag and there is no way to do other things as you drag.
In this case you need to also reposition the large view at the same time based upon the position of the pointer. Therefore you need some other kind of loop that says, "every little bit of time make the glass match the mouse coordinates and also align the large image." You could probably make some kind of combined solution that starts the magnifying glass moving with startDrag and uses an onEnterFrame to position the large view, but why make it more complex than it needs to be?