Drag And Drop is a very useful effect commonly used for making DressUp games, Mobile applications, Games, Cursors, Good user interface etc.

Here is a sample (by me) which would show one of its uses:
http://img266.imageshack.us/my.php?image=drag28lm.swf

You can see that when you press the "Shoutbox, FirstPost or the Dust Bin" you can drag them anywhere on the screen and on releasing mouse button they settle there. Also if you release mouse button over the dust bin after "selecting the Shoutbox or Firstpost" they get removed.

To make such "Drag and Drop" objects do as follows:

1. Select the object (can be any image) and press F8, select "Button" from the options and OK.
2. Put in following code in the Action Window for that object.
CODE
on (press)     
{
this.startDrag();  //start drag
}
on (release) {
this.stopDrag();  //stop drag
}

3. Again press F8 and select "Movie" this time.
4. Press ctrl + Enter and try.

You may add more of your commands above according to your needs. Thus you may create an interactive presentation


You can also use this property to make your own mouse icon for the presentation:

1. Select a graphic (small in size for a mouse icon)
2. Press F8 and select "Movie"
3.In the Actions Window type this code:
CODE
onClipEvent(load)
{
startDrag(this,true)  //start dragging and lock mouse to center
Mouse.hide()    //hide the  default mouse cursor
}

4. Again press F8 and select "Movie"
5. Press ctrl + Enter and try.

Here is the ".fla" file of my sample:
DOWNLOAD FLA


As this was my first FLASH tutorial so please pe patient where ever I go wrong. Also please rate this tutorial and post your comments. wink.gif cool.gif biggrin.gif

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