Drag and drop technics are very popular in Flash. Using that technic, you can move your object and place it wherever you like. This tutorial will show you how create a drag and drop movie.



Step 1

Start by creating a 250x150px document in flash. Frame rate set to 32fps (Frames per second).





Step 2

Draw something, and convert it into a Movie Clip (Ctrl+A+F8).



Step 3

Click once on that new made Movie Clip to select it, Open the Action Script Panel (F9) and Paste this script:

on (press) {
   startDrag(this);
}

on (release) {
   stopDrag();
}

on (press) {
   startDrag(this);
}

on (release) {
   stopDrag();
}

Test your movie (Ctrl+Enter)

We're done!

Enjoy!

Download source file (.fla)

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