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Hi,

I am attempting to reset an object to its original position after it has been moved using a 'Move object to cursor' action. I have tried to use 'Move Horizontal/Vertical', but this doesn't work properly. Any help would be much appreciated.

JJ,

What is your Pub Type ?

Using standard actions:
Use the Move Vert/Horiz action. Click on the Move-to option. Set your X, Y coordinates (of the original position) into the settings field in the upper right of the action set-up panel.

Another way:
- Create a Path object. Basically a straight line will do. Start it somewhere in the middle of the Page, and end the Path at the center of your other object.
- For whatever trigger event you use (to return the object to 'home'), add an Action for 'Follow Path'.

That's it.

I believe my publication type is 'Opus Professional' (the first option in the list).

I don't think I explained my problem in enough detail, it's a strange one to explain but I'll give it a go.

I have an object which is an image. What I'm designing is a click and drop screen, so the user clicks on the object which then becomes 'attached' to the cursor (using a 'Loop: move object to cursor' action). The user then clicks again to 'drop' the object. If the object is dropped in the wrong place, I need the object to move back to its original position. Using a 'Move Horizontal/Vertical' action, I have managed to achieve this. But then when the object is clicked on again, it instantly warps to a new position. This new position is always relative the position the object was dropped in, so if the object for example was dropped 50 pixels below its original position, when it is clicked on again it will instantly move 50 pixels above the cursor. It still mirrors the cursor's movements, but would always remain 50 pixels above the cursor in this example.

I was wondering if there was another way to move the object so that this doesn't happen. Lar, if I used an animation path would I be able to move the object from the position it was dropped to the exact position it started from?

Looking at just this statement, and not reading the whole problem, one solution I would point to is to create a Drop Zone.

For example, create a Frame object to cover the right place where image should be dropped. Set the Drag & Drop properties for the Frame (mainly which objects to allow to be dropped on it). Now set the Properties for your image objects -- for Drag & Drop, use the option to "return to original position" if not dropped of a valid drop zone.

"...from the position it was dropped". Short answer is 'no'. If you had specific and predictable places where the 'wrong drop' would happen, then maybe would work.

I suggest you look at Mackavi's website and find the Scribbles area, or more specifically find his collection of Opus 'functions' that he posted some time ago. He did some things with drag and drop and jump to cursor... etc. some time ago. Most of that used opusscript, but you still might find something interesting.

You can also check DW's main site -- Paul posted some time ago that they were going to put some of their tutorials there.

BTW, you wrote...If you used Drag & Drop features, you do not need this special construct.

Unless I'm missing something, drag and drop will not do what I need it to in this case. I need a single mouse click to attach the object to the cursor, and another single mouse click to drop the object. As far as I can tell, drag and drop only works if you click and hold, then release to drop the object, which is not what I want to do unfortunately.

I don't have any objections to using OpusScript, I just need this problem fixed. I will check out the places you have suggested, thanks.

Ok, after looking at OpusScript help I've managed to fix the problem, thought I'd post it up here in case anyone else encounters the same issue.

After using Move Horizontal/Vertical to move the object back to its original position, I used CloneObject to create a new version of the object in exactly the same position, then used a hide action to hide the original object.

A non cloned idea:



Just call the function on an object using a left mouse click and the line



Mack