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Here's a good place to start:

http://www.flashkit.com/tutorials/Games/Building-David_Do-598/index.php

It's going to take some time to learn what you're wanting to do, but the above link will...

Use Key.isDown();

I'm not at my workstation but this url will help.
http://www.macromedia.com/support/flash/action_scripts/objects/keyisdown.html

Also lookup the keyboard values in your...

Try this:

http://www.flashkit.com/tutorials/Actionscripting/Drag_Dr-Gorky-126/index.php

I created a .fla using what you had said you have. One way to do it...

View at: http://www.websightfx.com/butMC/button.swf

If on a PC, can download .fla at...

gparis,

Thanks. It must have been some junk I had on frame one in my actions frame. Once I cleared that and just tested a simple MC1 and MC2 only movie with the code, it works like a charm.
...

Maybe this will help:

Say I have a MC two levels deep inside one MC on the main timeline. If you want to use a button to go to a frame named "start" inside the 2nd deep MC (mc3), on the button...

I'm trying to get a dragged movieclip to attach another movieclip to it and follow it around as movieclip 1 is dragged.

This must be too easy. I'm missing just one element I think.

In other...

Pretty cool! Thanks guys!

etcettra,

Where were you about 5 hours ago? I just had an Aha! moment right before you posted. I figured it out. Can't make it move from a frame action.

After tons of trial and error, I...

Please help. What am I missing?

I've decided to go different route with my bubbles. I have created a bubble via attachMovie method on level 4. Have called it "bubbleBottom".

Now I want to...

Thanks Webku.

That works perfect. How about if I wanted to move each bubble seperately in different directions?

Right now all are being created, but my function is only grabbing...

I'm trying to control say 5 attached movies on the _root timeline. My code on frame 1 of _level0 is:

function createBubbles () {
for (i=0; i<5; i++) {
...

Brightrd,

Thanks for the direction. I'll get the book!

MA,

Thanks for your reply. Sorry about leaving out the code. On my MC I have:

on (press) {
startDrag ("");
}
on (release) {
stopDrag ();
}

I made a puzzle that works great. Only, I cannot find any resources on how to make the objects snap in my movie. This is hopefully a simple oversight in the actionscript code but I cannnot find the...