Drag & Drop question

[tkuypers at telenet.be]

Hi Jan,

Thanks, works like a charm!
Never thought about the dragImage :-(


Met vriendelijke groeten,

Ton Kuypers



On 30-jun-2010, at 06:54, Jan Schenkel wrote:

> I think the button you're dragging along will get in the way of the drop. It's better to update the dragImage rather than try and move a 'shadow' button around the card; besides, it won't show once your drag goes outside the window.
> 
> Add an image, set its name to "DragImage" and hide it. Then use the following code:
> ##
> on dragStart
>   set the itemdel to tab
>   set the label of btn "DragData" to \
>          item 2 of the hilitedText of me
>   export snapshot from btn "DragData" \
>          to image "DragImage" as PNG
>   set the dragImage to the short id of image "DragImage"
>   set the dragData["text"] to the hilitedText of me
>   pass dragStart
> end dragStart
> ##
> 
> You can always play around with the dragImageOffset to better align the dragImage with the cursor.
> 
> HTH,
> 
> Jan Schenkel.
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> --- On Tue, 6/29/10, tkuypers at telenet.be <tkuypers at telenet.be> wrote:
>> ok, something weird is happening and
>> I'm lost...
>> 
>> I have a list with some lines of text of which I want to
>> drag from.
>> Next I have a button on which I want to drop onto.
>> 
>> I've created an invisible button, whose label is set to the
>> line I selected, and becomes visible in the "dragStart"
>> handler of the field.
>> 
>> Script in field:
>> on dragStart
>>    set the itemdel to tab
>>    set the label of btn "DragData" to item 2
>> of the hilitedText of me
>>    show btn "DragData"
>>    set the dragData["text"] to the
>> hilitedText of me
>>    pass dragStart
>> end dragStart
>> 
>> on dragEnd
>>    hide btn "DragData"
>> end dragEnd
>> 
>> on dragMove
>>    set the loc of btn "DragData" to the
>> mouseLoc
>>    pass dragMove
>> end dragMove
>> 
>> 
>> And now the strange thing.
>> Drag & drop works fine, the button accepts the drop,
>> but moving the "text-lable-button" is choppy and  stops
>> when I leave the field.
>> 
>> So I moved the "DragMove" handler out of the field and
>> moved it to the card script.
>> Moving is really smooth now, the button follows the mouse
>> very nice, but the drop doesn't work anymore... The button
>> that should receive the dragData just doesn't react
>> anymore.
>> 
>> What am I missing?
>> 
>> I'm on a Mac and using the latest version of RR
>> (4.5.0-dp-3), but 4.0.0-gm-1 reacts the same.
>> 
>> Any help is welcome!
>> 
>> 
>> Met vriendelijke groeten,
>> Warm Regards,
>> 
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>> Ton Kuypers
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>> 
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>> 
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