Try this in the image ā€œPā€ script

on mouseUp
   repeat with x = 1 to the number of controls
      if the loc of target is within the rect of control x then
         if ("P" is in the short name of control x) AND (the ID of the target 
is not the ID of control x) then 
            set the loc of target to the loc of control x
            exit repeat
         else
            move me to 350,350
         end if
      end if
   end repeat
end mouseUp


> On Aug 27, 2016, at 3:22 AM, Richmond <richmondmathew...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I'm obviously getting something rather wrong, so I have uploaded something 
> here as explaining things without a sample stack and a pretty picture is 
> well-nigh impossible:
> 
> http://forums.livecode.com/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=27837
> 
> Richmond.
> 
> On 27.08.2016 00:59, Jeanne A. E. DeVoto wrote:
>> At 12:27 AM +0300 8/27/2016, Richmond wrote:
>>> This doesn't seem to work because this cycles through ALL the controls, 
>>> and, of course,
>>> the object being dragged is also a control.
>> 
>> 
>> Ah. Forgot about that. You'll need to add a condition:
>> 
>>    if within(control x, the mouseLoc) \
>>       AND ("P" is not in the short name of control x)
>>       AND (the ID of the target is not the ID of control x) then
>> 
>> 
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