pg. 189 flash manual (examine _droptarget)

[magiksound]

I've been trying to figure this one out for a couple weeks, How to have a dragable movie trigger specific actions? (pg 189 flash manual) How do I "examine the _droptarget property"? I tried

If _droptarget (name="trash")
Go To ("nextmovie 1")
End If

but my syntax is obviously wrong, amoung other things i'm sure, and where do i put this statement? I used

On(Press)
Start Drag (Get Property(x,y))
End ON
On (Release)
Stop Drag
End ON

would i put the evaluation statement after "Stop Drag"? any knowlaedge you could pass on to me would be greatly appreciated

[Aquaman]

Wooo yeah.. thats some bad syntax.. First of all your strucuture would be as follows:
Inside of your main timeline you would have a movie clip that you wanted to drag, and all of your target MCs. Keep in mind that the targets need to be named (the instances that is)

Now, inside of the MC you want to drag should be a button, the actions attached to that button should be as follows:

On (Press)
Start Drag ("", lockcenter)
End On
On (Release, Release Outside)
Stop Drag
If (_droptarget eq "/trash")
End If
End On

Then, inside that If statement put the code you need...
<EMBED src="/cgi-bin/ubb/Members/sigs/00000017.swf" quality=high WIDTH=350 HEIGHT=50 TYPE="application/x-shockwave-flash" PLUGINSPAGE="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash"> </EMBED>

[magiksound]

many thanks aquaman, however after following these instructions very carefully, and re-checking everything 15 times it still does not work, I added a "Go TO and Play 10" to the if statement and was ever so careful, if anyone has time to check it out I put the test fla(for download) at:
http://members.aol.com/magiksound/flash/droptarget.fla

Thank You very much

[Aquaman]

Thats because you are working in multiple timelines.. you want the main movie to jump to frame 10 correct?
Then you have to tell target to that time line and put the appropriate actions inside of the tell target.
In this case, your target would be /
<EMBED src="/cgi-bin/ubb/Members/sigs/00000017.swf" quality=high WIDTH=350 HEIGHT=50 TYPE="application/x-shockwave-flash" PLUGINSPAGE="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash"> </EMBED>

[magiksound]

oh, yes, forgot to turn my brain on, thanks so much for your help