7 Replies Latest reply: Jan 29, 2014 2:47 PM by rossfranks

Drop & drag in a symbol not at frame 0:00

rossfranks Jan 21, 2014 7:40 PM

Hi there,

I've viewed this awesome tutorial on drop and drag ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4R8jFI_DeE ), but I want to have a drop and drag that's within a symbol and that doesn't appear until later on in the timeline.

Is there a way I can do that?

(Sorry i'm new to creationComplete)

1. Re: Drop & drag in a symbol not at frame 0:00

meenat3 Jan 22, 2014 2:22 AM (in response to rossfranks)

Hi,

Please give a try writing drag and drop code inside the "Complete" event within a Symbol's Timeline.
Let us know if it works.

Regards,
Meenakshi
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2. Re: Drop & drag in a symbol not at frame 0:00

elainefinnell Jan 22, 2014 10:04 AM (in response to rossfranks)

Hi, pancreasboy12-

You should probably use the creationComplete event in the symbol definition.

Thanks,

-Elaine
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3. Re: Drop & drag in a symbol not at frame 0:00

rossfranks Jan 22, 2014 4:25 PM (in response to elainefinnell)

Thanks guys,

ok I gave it a whirl and it's not working.

Here's what I've done...

http://twistedpancreas.com/edge/misc/dropDrag.zip

dropDragSimple is a working version from the video tutorial I did.

dropDrag is trying to get it to work within some symbols, but alas the circle won't drag

Any help is appreciated.
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4. Re: Drop & drag in a symbol not at frame 0:00

elainefinnell Jan 23, 2014 11:32 AM (in response to rossfranks)
It looks like you were really struggling with scope in the sample. Here's a cleaned up version of your file:

http://adobe.ly/1eh3NNi

What I did was to:
Rename "circle" to "combination" to remind me which one had both the target and the element to be dropped
Removed the code to include the call to yepnope and used the fancy, new script loading feature to include jQuery-UI (look in the Scripts section of the Library Panel)
Changed the call to be local to the combination symbol (in that context, "sym" stands for "the current symbol," which is "combination" in this case)

Hope this helps!

-Elaine
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5. Re: Drop & drag in a symbol not at frame 0:00

rossfranks Jan 23, 2014 3:24 PM (in response to elainefinnell)

Thanks Elaine,

that's the ticket!

One other small thing, the reason I had all of that in one main symbol was so that I could animate that main symbol scaling. The problem is that throws out the drag and drop like so...

http://twistedpancreas.com/edge/misc/dropDragScaled.zip

Is there a way around that?
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6. Re: Drop & drag in a symbol not at frame 0:00

rossfranks Jan 27, 2014 8:32 PM (in response to rossfranks)

No way around it?
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7. Re: Drop & drag in a symbol not at frame 0:00

rossfranks Jan 29, 2014 2:47 PM (in response to rossfranks)

Hmm maybe I'm not getting a response here because the post has been marked as "Correct". I'll make a new post.
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