How to detect whether a movie clip A touches another movie clip B?

[lawrencelee]

How to detect whether a movie clip A touches another movie clip B?
we can implement this function using MovieClip.hitTest()
but according to the documentation this function is not supported in FL
sometimes i use getProperty() to detect but it is not a smart way
well, i want to implement this detect to make a table tennis etc.
how should i do?

[mariamdh]

The hitTest() function is NOT supported by FlashLite. The FlashLite engine is based on the the Flash 4 syntax.

I know that detecting collision gets a bit lengthy and tedious with FL, but that is the only way out. One has to use the getProperty() method to detect collision.

What you can do is, if Object A is colliding with Object B, you can calculate the distance between the two objects. If the distance is <= Object A width/2+Object B width/2, then they are colliding.

I hope this helps.

Regards,
Mariam