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1012 - How can I track if an icon is being dragged?

by - Joseph Ganci

I have 23 icons that the user can drag and drop into one of three specific target areas, but I need to know which icon is being dragged. I know there is a Dragged@"icon" variable and a Moving@"icon" variable, both of which are supposed to be true when the icon is being dragged. The problem is that I don't know where in the flow to test it.

I have the code like this: If Dragged@"icon"=True then iconchanged:=1.
I tried code like: iconchanged:=Dragged@"icon".I have placed the line of code in the Interaction ICON where the target areas are. I have place the code as a calculation attached to the icon being moved. I have put the code in the timeline after the icons and before the Interaction ICON. None of these has returned any results.

What am I doing wrong?

1. Attach a new Map icon to the Interaction or to a perpetual Interaction icon above the dragging Interaction.
2. Make it a Conditional response.
3. Make it perpetual (which will change the Automatic setting to On False to True) and set the condition to dragging@"icon".
4. Put in the Map icon what you want to happen while the user is dragging.

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