Using startDrag() to drag multiple MovieClips

[charlie83]

Hello,

I have this code:

mc1.startDrag();	
mc2.startDrag();

but only mc2 drags, not mc1. How do I make both MovieClips drag?

[FormerSwinger]

You could place them inside a third movieclip and drag that.
You can also make the first mc to follow the second one instead of following the mouse.

[charlie83]

How do i make the second movie clip follow?

[senocular]

use onMouseMove and just set the position of the movie clip to the location of the mouse

[b4dp00fy]

It's quite simple, calculate the distance between the two movieclips. In the first one when start dragging change the coordinates of the second with _xmouse+dist1 and _ymouse+dist2. Check out the .fla
Reply if this is helpful.

[senocular]

2005, digging up an old one there

[Gambyt]

I actually just did this for my blog "under construction" page

mc.onPress = startDrag;
mc.onRelease = mc.onReleaseOutside = stopDrag;

It doesn't get much more simple than this

to make another movieClip follow the movieClip you are dragging you have to add a listener to the movieClip obj and that gets a little more in-depth than I have time for it's sack time for me. Yay NC

[b4dp00fy]

Originally Posted by Gambyt

I actually just did this for my blog "under construction" page

mc.onPress = startDrag;
mc.onRelease = mc.onReleaseOutside = stopDrag;

It doesn't get much more simple than this

to make another movieClip follow the movieClip you are dragging you have to add a listener to the movieClip obj and that gets a little more in-depth than I have time for it's sack time for me. Yay NC

Gambyt, this thread is about dragging multiple movieclips.
What you did is dragging just one.

[senocular]

There's also this:
http://proto.layer51.com/d.aspx?f=845

[b4dp00fy]

It took me a lot of time to understand the entire code.
Anyway, I think the ideas are pretty similar, but I have less lines of code and it's more appropriate to begginers.