Drag and Drop

Dragging in Flash

Flash gives designer numerous opportunities to make the Web page or application truly interactive.

One of them is - draggable movie clips . Dragging and Dropping are one of the most complex events possible with graphical user interface. Sometimes such events are called "semantic". Simple –"core" events are rare – like onMouseMove. This event is fired ("happened") when mouse… simply moves.

But onPress for example consists on several events – before it's happened mouse is moving over the button, and only then being clicked.

Drag and Drop event are even more complicated – try to count how many events are fired to make then happen. However those complex events become a familiar part of graphical user interface many years ago and when you master them you will be able to make your Flash application much more versatile.

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