Picture changes as you drag it.

James,

Is this what you are trying to do...Story File?

Hi John,

If the Fireman stayed where he was and it was just the circle and plus signs appearing as you dragged around it would be perfect.

How did you make the picture change states as it moved over different areas? Because if I did that to a transparent box it would be exactly what I am after.

Thanks

I must be missing something here because I have copied the trigger you used here but i don't gte the changes to the picture that you do.

Could you provide some instruction please

Hi James

look at this, I used two states and two shapes and the dragged over trigger

Should do what you want

Drag the shape on the left over the one on the right

Phil

In the theme of answering my own questions (which I appologise for doing but I am learning this on the fly due to deadlines) it seems you need to be using pictures, not shapes to get this to work properly.

I had being using transparent shapes but have it working better with pictures.

Shapes can change state, but if you are doing it by clicking on the the shape it must be transparent, not no fill/no line

Thanks Phil,

I have managed to get to the same stage as you with the shape changing state when you first move it and then again when it reaches the drop area. I have managed to simulate dragging and dropping emails with all the correct icons. 

This is probably good enough for what I want but the perfectionist in me is still working on it because when you drop the shape in the wrong place it goes back to it's orginal location but doesn't change back to it's default state (in your case a square) it stays as whatever the shape was went you dropped it.

John doesn't seem to have this problem with his fireman and somehow has done the whole thing with only one trigger (unlike the two triggers we are using). I still can't replicate this with the one trigger so if someone can see what John has done that I can't see please let me know.

Thanks!

did not look at his file beofre posting.

Sounds like an elegant solution, unfortunately dropbox is blocked here, will look later

James,

See if this Story does what you want.

Check the states on Fireman 1.   The "no" symbol appears on mouse down and the plus appears when dragged over the transparent rectangle.

John

Looks good - I hadn't thought of making a change of state based on mouse click.

One small thing and I know it's nit picking but when you select the fireman, he turns into a crossed out circle, then when you move over the drop area he turns into a plus, then when you keep going past the drop aea he turns into a fireman again and not a crossed out circle.

I am at a loss on how to fix that but I will have a look later and try be helpful.

Good catch, James.

Looks like some re-engineering is called for.  I'll take a look at it.

James,

Give this Story a try.

John

You've hit that one out of the park; works perfectly.

I will now reverse engineer what you have done and put it into my modules. I can see that sort of drag and drop function being useful to anyone making a software simulation and would recommend your work here gets turned into one of those tutorial screeners.

I really appreciate your help on this!