if statement issues with draggable movie clip

[databell]

I'm creating a draggable movie clip (an arrow symbol) that drags along a rectangular track. Works fine but my issue is when the arrow's y axis is at a certain position, it needs to remove a movie clip instance and also run a trace statement. Right now, it's not doing that (if I change the == in the if statement to += it works but then it just works as soon as you mouse down on the arrow) and I'm wondering where I'm goofing up. Here's my code:

import flash.display.Sprite;
import flash.display.DisplayObject;
import flash.events.MouseEvent;

var arrow_mc:MovieClip = new arrow();
addChild(arrow_mc);
arrow_mc.x = 110;
arrow_mc.y = 316;

var product:MovieClip = new Products ();
addChild(product);
product.x = 228;
product.y = 54;

arrow_mc.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_DOWN,dr agIt);
function dragIt(evt:MouseEvent):void {
var rectangle:Rectangle = new Rectangle(109, 62, 0, 254);
arrow_mc.startDrag(false, rectangle);
if (arrow_mc.y == 300) {
removeChild(product);
trace("Product Removed");
}
}

arrow_mc.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_UP,drag Stop);
function dragStop(evt:MouseEvent):void {
arrow_mc.stopDrag();
}

[a_modified_dog]

try using >= (greater than or equal) rather than == (exactly equals)
as the arrow.mc might stop at 299.9 or 300.1 which will fail your argument

[databell]

That's a good point but in this case, it's similar to when I tried !=. As soon as I Moused Down on the button, it went ahead and played the arguments out. Is there a way I can do an if statement specifying a range. Like if y>=300 but y<=310?

[florianvanthuyn]

sure:

if(arrow_mc.y >= 300 && arrow_mc <= 310){ ... } 

[databell]

I tried if(arrow_mc.y <= 198 && arrow_mc.y >= 214) but it didn't work. Nothing happened.

[florianvanthuyn]

Yeah, but that's because of the statement, if the y is <= 198, then it can't be possibly larger than 214 at the same time!

if(arrow_mc.y >= 198 && arrow_mc.y <= 214) 

is probably what you need

[databell]

I tried that but no change.

[florianvanthuyn]

Hmm.. I once managed to tie in a square with that method using 4 x &&!
Maybe your solution would be to check for a hit test, rather than the y position.

Are you sure the registration point of the arrow is located at it's tip and not anywhere else, because that's something people tend to forget about when using arrows

[metalfury]

Maybe set up a trace for mouseX and mouseY to check that the numbers correspond to where/what you think the mouseX and mouseY are?

The reason I suggest this is that I had some issues that were solved in this thread when a hittest wouldn't work for me (due to the mouseX/Y being not where they should of been):

http://board.flashkit.com/board/showthread.php?t=799765

[databell]

Registration point seems to be in the right place. I looked at hitTest examples and didn't really think that this was what I was looking for. One other thing I noticed here was if my mouse is on the arrow and I start dragging, as long as my mouse is down and not even on the arrow anymore, the drag effect still happens. That's really weird. Any way I can constrain it so that it only drags when my mouse is directly on the arrow object?