Drag and drop with multiple duplicates as target

[Chijje]

Hi!

I'm having some trouble with my drag and drop thingy.

What I'm trying to solve is a problem where my MC should be able to be dropped on multiple targets.

The targets is being duplicated from another drag and drop movieclip.

Each of the duplicate copies are named something like mcclip1, mcclip2, mcclip3, is it possible to "SELECT" all with one variable?

[MSLourens]

could you please explain a bit more what you want to achieve? How do you duplicate your movieclips? How do you want to drop a single source on several targets at the same time?

[Chijje]

Duplicate:
dupli = mc.duplicateMovieClip("mcname"+mcNum, ++mcNum);

All duplicates will be named "mcname1", "mcname2" and so on...

Is it possible to make something like a hittest for all of em at once?

I know that this won't work but it might show what im trying to do.

hitTest(_root.mcname"ALL NUMBERS"))

[MSLourens]

a hittest is always per object, so you have to manually drop your movie clip on each duplicate. You could define a hittest for a temp object (say a rectangle) which contains all the duplicate movieclips and do a hittest on this object. I'm not sure if an object should be on the stage to be able to do a hittest with it...

[Prid]

Use a for loop:

for(i=1;i<=5;++i){
    if(this["mcname"+i].hitTest(someObject)){
        // do something
    }
}

scope[parts]

that is the syntax for dynamically referring to an object, where scope is something like _root, this, _parent, etc. and parts are the strings/numbers/variables you want to join together, for Flash to look for the object their name make up, in this case, "mcname" + i (String + variable), which in this for loop would create a String like, "mcname0", "mcname1", etc. and then try and find an object with the same instance name

[Chijje]

Prid, that's exactly what I was lookin' for.