Cleaner Movie Clip Dragging

[p0c]

I briefly remember seeing a tutorial for this somewhere but I cant find it anywhere. But is there a way to drag movie clips around using startDrag but with a cleaner more fluent motion as it a bit jolty when moving?

Anydony know the answer?

[Flash Gordon]

increase your frame rate probably.

[matbury]

Is it something to do with update after event?

[p0c]

Now that rings a bell!

[flash_boy]

Give this a shot... you actually place this on the movie clip. However I should let you know that this no longer works in AS3.

onClipEvent (mouseMove) {
setProperty (this, _x, _root._xmouse);
setProperty (this, _y, _root._ymouse);
updateAfterEvent(mouseMove);
}

Regards,
flash_boy

[Jerico]

is this it?

http://www.stevenhargrove.com/smooth-startdrag/

[p0c]

Yeah thats exactly what im after although it is for an older version of Action Script I think

[panel]

var circle:Sprite = new Sprite();
circle.graphics.beginFill(0xFFCC00);
circle.graphics.drawCircle(80, 80, 40);
addChild(circle);

circle.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_DOWN, mouseDown) 
circle.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_UP, mouseReleased);

function mouseDown(event:MouseEvent):void {
    circle.startDrag();
    stage.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_MOVE, onMouseMove);
}

function mouseReleased(event:MouseEvent):void {
    circle.stopDrag();
    stage.removeEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_MOVE, onMouseMove);
}

function onMouseMove(evt:MouseEvent):void
{
    evt.updateAfterEvent();
}

[p0c]

Thanks again Panel it seems to work but i do get this error when starting...

"Warning: 1090: Migration issue: The onMouseMove event handler is not triggered automatically by Flash Player at run time in ActionScript 3.0. You must first register this handler for the event using addEventListener ( 'mouseMove', callback_handler)."

Any ideas?

[matbury]

We'd have to see your mouseMove and callback_handler functions to know what the problem is.