Getting drag and drop to copy (not cut) dragged text

[Klaus Major]

Hi David,

> It appears to me that if we select some text from a Metacard 2.5 field 
> and drag
> and drop it elsewhere, then
> -- if the drop occurs outside Metacard, the dragged text remains in 
> the original 
> field, while
> -- if the drop occurs inside Metacard, the dragged text is deleted 
> from the 
> original field.
>
> I am trying to override this behavior when text is dropped to a locked 
> field,
> i.e., I want the dragged text to be displayed in the locked field but 
> remain, still selected,
> where it was in the original field.  The following procedure does not 
> work:
>
> In the card script:
>
> on dragStart
>   global textBuffer,locBuffer,chunkBuffer
> -- these globals are used to record the starting condition of the 
> field being dragged from:
>   put the text of the target into textBuffer
>   put the selectedChunk into chunkBuffer
>   put the long name of the target into locBuffer
>   pass dragStart
> end dragStart
>
> In the script of a locked field:
>
> on dragEnter
>   set the acceptDrop to true
> end dragEnter
>
> on dragDrop
>   global textBuffer,locBuffer,chunkBuffer
>   put the dragData["text"] into me  -- This works as expected.
>   -- Now try to restore the pre-drag content and selection of the 
> source field:
>   do "put textBuffer into" && locBuffer
>   do "select" && chunkBuffer
> -- But this doesn't happen.  The source field has lost the text that 
> was dragged out.
> end dragDrop
>
> Can anyone explain what's going wrong and how to fix this?

well, the quickest and most HIG conform workaround will be to just 
press the ALT-key while dragging text inside MC ;-)

> Many thanks.

You're welcome...

> David Epstein

Have a nice weekend.


Regards

Klaus Major
klaus at major-k.de
www.major-k.de