[estazor]

Well I'm working on a small drawing application that a friend and I worked on. Just trying to kink out some bugs that are still lingering and there is one that is really bothering me. I've been trying to figure out how to fix it but so far nothing that I have tried is working.

So, basically here is the problem. I have two sliders that determine the size and the "distance", how fuzzy the bush is, of the brush. Now for the most part it works fine but when you drag the little guy to either ends of the slider it doesn't stay down. The little tracker keeps following the mouse.

So I'm curious if anyone else has encountered this. It annoys me so much becuase this seems like such a simple thing. I guess that's how it always goes haha.

If you want to check out the bug for yourself here is a link.
http://virtualpaint.cias.rit.edu/

[John Good]

ha ha ha you did this and you don't know how to handle drag and drop ?
I'd love to see your code...

drop targets variables must be a real mess.

[estazor]

lol the target is fine it's just a simple this.startDrag and this.stopDrag.

I'm telling ya when it comes to the real complex stuff I'm perfectly fine fixing them but it's always the little simple problems that usually throw me a curve ball.

[John Good]

post your code. I'll throw an eye.

[estazor]

Alright here's the code, I probably just need some fresh eyes on it. This is just for one of the sliders since I doubt anyone would need to see code for both since they're essentially the same. Sadly I can't work on this in the current lab I'm in since there is no Flash installed but discussions about it never huts :P.

blurSlider.track_mc.onMouseDown = function() { 	
startDrag(this,true,0,0,100,0);
}  

blurSlider.track_mc.onRelease = function() { 	
stopDrag();	 	
} 

Also in case you're wondering, yes blurSlider is on the main timeline and yes track_mc is inside of it. So the paths are all correct.

[Sandwichera]

Try defining an onReleaseOutside too to "double" the stopDrag. Yes, i saw this before but i cannot remember the way i solved it :P sorrrrry

[estazor]

Yea I tried doing an extra stopDrag when the person did a onRollOut but it didn't take sadly.

[John Good]

Originally Posted by estazor

Alright here's the code, I probably just need some fresh eyes on it.

it needs more than fresh eyes, it needs a buch of conditionals kid !

[estazor]

yea, yea who needs conditionals really? :P

I was considering that. I guess when I get home I'll give it a shot.