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Hi,

I am creating a single page activity where the user drags parts of a skeleton onto an outline of a body.

What I would like is for each part to snap to it's correct position if it is dropped close enough, but to return if it is incorrect. I have set up the outline as a drop zone, but the snap function simply snaps all the body parts to the middle.

Is there a simple way to ensure that each part will snap into the correct place, or am I going to have to slice the outline into separate parts and have each part as a drop zone? There are 17 parts to my skeleton and so it could be a long job!

Also this task will be timed. I have worked out how to start, stop and display the clock, but it always displays hours minutes and seconds. This task is unlikely to take much over a minute and so I would really like to not have any display for hours. Is it possible to remove these from the display? Would my only option be a mask of some sort?

Sorry for 2 questions in one, but hopefully they are not too taxing

Many thanks for any advice

RB

I would layout the pieces as if I was making a drag and drop puzzle using png pictures pieces. Search the forum for puzzle, the following link will get you started.
viewtopic.php?t=2243&highlight=puzzle

See the attached for imp file showing setting the minutes and seconds.

Hi Leo,

many thanks for the very quick reply. The puzzle solution will work perfectly, it'll take a little while to get the pieces in exactly the right place, but it still seems the neatest solution.

Your time solution also works but it had me stumped. I was trying to do the same thing as you did, i.e. editing the start clock format, but each time I simply highlighted and cut the [hh] bit the apply button was greyed out and the changes wouldn't take.

I have now realised that I have to type the entire format code in from scratch and it works perfectly.

Thanks again for your help, it is much appreciated.

RB

I created a similar publication a while back and have attached the imp file and resources. I have uploaded a Flex version here:

http://ictstuff.info/opus/body_parts.htm

Thanks David, that's a cute little publication, similar to what I am doing. Thanks for your help.

RB

RB,

In case the other approaches didn't include this, take a look at the command GetDisplayData(), in the help files. Seems like that would allow you to construct a fully finished model, Hide() it, and then use that info for positioning duplicate objs.

Probably could also "pick up" correct Rotation angle, calculate a zone of success (say percentage diff. for coords relative to obj size), etc.

I have got that page working as I wished, but thanks for this Lar, I will look into it.

RB