Flash Drag and Drop problem

Having a problem with _droptarget when I use loadMovie("file", target);

Here's the details:

making a "fill-in the blanks" clip.
drag/drop the words "onto" a target.
and when all of the words are filled in it will move on to next scene, etc.

here's how i have the drop target coded.

myClip.onRelease = function(){
this.stopDrag();
if (this._droptarget == "/target"){
someCode...
}
}
works fine by itself, but when I load this into another FLA using loadMovie("file.swf", target); the droptarget is not recognized.

i have no idea what to do.

hope someone can help

thanks,
k

I'm not sure about this but I don't think your problem is with _droptarget...you are comparing it to '/target' and since you have loaded this .swf in another it is looking for 'target' at the root level. I am more familiar with actionscript using the dot notation but I'm assuming '/target' looks to the root timeline???

I may very well be wrong but I thought I would at least give you something easy to try.

~panhead490

i figured it out.

you are correct that it was "looking' for that target on the root timeline.

i am mostly familiar with dot notation too, but "_droptarget" uses the old "/" notation.

my solution:

if (eval(clip._droptarget) == target){
etc etc.
}

this will convert the slash notation to dot notation.