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Flash Animation 19: Drag and Drop ActionScripting Commands

By Adrien-Luc Sanders, About.com

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Setting up the on (press) Event

To start off with, we're going to return to a familiar command: the on command, to set up the event that will begin the mouse-dragging action. For a refresher, you can find this command by expanding Actions->Movie Control in the left-hand hierarchy of the Actions pane, and then double-clicking on on to add it.

For this instance, we want the event to occur when the mouse button is pressed, so in the options we'll click on Press.

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