More Drag and Drop (was Kudos to Eric Chatonet for Drag and Drop)

[Scott Rossi]

Recently, Richard Gaskin wrote:

> I'm adding some new drag-n-drop functionality to some of my apps, so it
> seemed a good time to check out Eric Chatonet's nifty tutorial on Rev's
> new DnD options.
> 
> Way cool!  Seeing the various options in real-world settings really
> makes short work of getting started with DnD in Rev.

> <http://www.sosmartsoftware.com/downloads/Managing%20Drag%20and%20Drop2.rev>

Another strong endorsement from me as well.  This is a great stack -- well
done, Eric!

I used a modified version of one of Eric's routines at RevConLive in Las
Vegas to copy objects between stacks.  I wound up building a routine that
works with older versions of Rev (back to 2.7 I believe), and creates a
dragged object representation that exactly matches the source object,
instead of being contained in rectangle.  One can also drag groups of
objects as well: images, controls, everything.  The following example stack
does this with professional flair and is easy to implement.
In your message box:

 go url "http://www.tactilemedia.com/site_files/downloads/TMdragndrop.rev"

I need to create a thumbnail for this in the demos section of my site, but
for now, use the above to get the stack.  Totally free for use.  Tested on
OS X and Vista.

Once again, many thanks to Eric.

Regards,

Scott Rossi
Creative Director
Tactile Media, Multimedia & Design