Getting properties of droptarget

[mzandstra]

Basically, how do I do it? I want to set the height, width, and position of the dropped object to match the target object.

All of these traces output "undefined":

trace(this.droptarget._name);
trace(this.droptarget._parent._x);
trace(this.droptarget._parent._y);
trace(this.droptarget._parent._height);
trace(this.droptarget._parent._width);

Whereas this outputs "/exercise/task_bin" (the full path of the target MC).

trace(this.droptarget);

The droptarget is a MC that consists of only a shape. I read that droptarget might fetch the shape instead of the MC, so I tried these but they all return undefined as well:

trace(this.droptarget._name);
trace(this.droptarget._parent._x);
trace(this.droptarget._parent._y);
trace(this.droptarget._parent._height);
trace(this.droptarget._parent._width);

How can I access the properties of the target object?

[mzandstra]

Is there some way to do this by creating a new variable to represent the droptarget perhaps? I'm stumped and this is a time-sensitive project.

[Prid]

I'd recommend using hitTest, but from the LiveDocs:

To compare the _droptarget property of an instance to a reference, use the eval() function to convert the returned value from slash syntax to a dot-syntax reference.

so:

trace(eval(this.droptarget)._name);
trace(eval(this.droptarget)._parent._x);
trace(eval(this.droptarget)._parent._y);
trace(eval(this.droptarget)._parent._height);
trace(eval(this.droptarget)._parent._width);

[mzandstra]

Exactly what I needed. I'll have to research hitTest for next time–no idea how that works.

[fudgematico]

Kl worked for me too