Drag and Drop Issue

[rhanna2]

Hi,
I have the following script and I'm having a problem that the movie clips are draggable but they do not drop. It's probably something very simple, can someone help me, please!!!!

Thanks

import flash.display.MovieClip;

// you need to create the variables
var xstart:Number = 0;
var ystart:Number = 0;
var mcAnswer:MovieClip;

a1_mc.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_DOWN,onePress);
a2_mc.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_DOWN,onePress);
a3_mc.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_DOWN,onePress);
a4_mc.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_DOWN,onePress);
a5_mc.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_DOWN,onePress);
a6_mc.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_DOWN,onePress);
a7_mc.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_DOWN,onePress);
a8_mc.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_DOWN,onePress);
a9_mc.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_DOWN,onePress);
a10_mc.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_DOWN,onePress);
a11_mc.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_DOWN,onePress);
a12_mc.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_DOWN,onePress);
a13_mc.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_DOWN,onePress);
a14_mc.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_DOWN,onePress);
a15_mc.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_DOWN,onePress);
a16_mc.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_DOWN,onePress);

function onePress(evt:MouseEvent):void{
    /*
    evt.currentTarget refers to the object
    on the EventListeners which has trigger
    the event. 

    so for example if answer2_mc was pressed.
    then the press is the event being triggered
    and answer2_mc is what currentTarget 
    would be refering to.
    */
    evt.currentTarget.startDrag(true);
    setChildIndex(evt.currentTarget,numChildren-1);
    textField.text="";
    xstart = evt.currentTarget.x;
    ystart = evt.currentTarget.y;
}

a1_mc.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_UP,oneRelease);
a2_mc.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_UP,oneRelease);
a3_mc.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_UP,oneRelease);
a4_mc.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_UP,oneRelease);
a5_mc.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_UP,oneRelease);
a6_mc.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_UP,oneRelease);
a7_mc.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_UP,oneRelease);
a8_mc.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_UP,oneRelease);
a9_mc.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_UP,oneRelease);
a10_mc.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_UP,oneRelease);
a11_mc.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_UP,oneRelease);
a12_mc.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_UP,oneRelease);
a13_mc.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_UP,oneRelease);
a14_mc.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_UP,oneRelease);
a15_mc.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_UP,oneRelease);
a16_mc.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_UP,oneRelease);

function oneRelease(evt:MouseEvent):void{
    evt.currentTarget.stopDrag();
    switch(evt.currentTarget){
        case a1_mc:
        mcAnswer=benefit2011001_mc;
        break
        case a2_mc:
        mcAnswer=benefit2011001_mc;
        break
        case a3_mc:
        mcAnswer=benefit2011001_mc;
        break
        case a4_mc:
        mcAnswer=benefit2011001_mc;
        break
        case a5_mc:
        mcAnswer=benefit2011002_mc;
        break
        case a6_mc:
        mcAnswer=benefit2011002_mc;
        break
        case a7_mc:
        mcAnswer=benefit2011002_mc;
        break
        case a8_mc:
        mcAnswer=benefit2011002_mc;
        break
        case a9_mc:
        mcAnswer=benefit2011003_mc;
        break
        case a10_mc:
        mcAnswer=benefit2011003_mc;
        break
        case a11_mc:
        mcAnswer=benefit2011003_mc;
        break
        case a12_mc:
        mcAnswer=benefit2011003_mc;
        break
        case a13_mc:
        mcAnswer=allPlans_mc;
        break
        case a14_mc:
        mcAnswer=allPlans_mc;
        break
        case a15_mc:
        mcAnswer=allPlans_mc;
        break
        case a16_mc:
        mcAnswer=allPlans_mc;
        break
    }
    
    if (evt.currentTarget.hitTestObject(mcAnswer)) {
        textField.text="Correct!";
        /* 
        numbers aren't strings so we convert it 
        to a string so we can use it for the textfield 
        */
        evt.currentTarget.enabled = false;
    }
    else {
        textField.text="Incorrect.";
        evt.currentTarget.x = xstart;
        evt.currentTarget.y = ystart;
    }
}

[solisarg]

I had recently the same problem. In my case, I use something like this:

this.stage.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_UP,on eRelease);

Also since Flash allows to only drag one element, you can use just stopDrag() whitout explicitly reference to the element beeing dragged. In fact, in the event.target you still receive the reference to the MC beeing dragged, so you don't need 16 listeners to the MOUSE_UP, but just one

Jorge