Drag and Drop to Item in List Field

[Bill Vlahos]

Terry and Marty,

Thanks for the suggestions. They both work.

Since this is a drag and drop scenario this script looks like it does what I want.
on dragMove
   set the hilitedLines of me to (word 2 of the mouseLine)
end dragMove

Bill

On Nov 16, 2010, at 3:52 PM, Terry Judd wrote:

> How about this...
> 
> on mouseMove
>    set the hilitedLines of me to (word 2 of the mouseLine)
> end mouseMove
> 
> Terry...
> 
> 
> On 17/11/10 10:39 AM, "Bill Vlahos" <bvlahos at mac.com> wrote:
> 
>> The following script works very well with one problem. This script hilites the
>> line correctly but just keeps hiliting lines as I move the mouse around and
>> they stay hilited.
>> 
>> Make a scrolling field with some lines of text and put this handler in it:
>> 
>> on mouseWithin
>>   set the backgroundColor of the mouseLine to "yellow"
>> end mouseWithin
>> 
>> How do I have it only hilite one line at a time?
>> 
>> Bill Vlahos
>> 
>> On Nov 12, 2010, at 11:12 PM, Bill Vlahos wrote:
>> 
>>> I have a list of categories and I want to drag and drop some text from a list
>>> field onto one of the categories in the target list field. The line of text
>>> should hilite on the drag (before the drop) so I know which item it is going
>>> to I should drag into.
>>> 
>>> I can get most of the coding for drag and drop but there are some things I
>>> don't know.
>>> 1. How do I hilite the line of text in the list field the mouse is over?
>>> 2. How do I get the line of text in the target list field when the users
>>> drops the mouse?
>>> 
>>> Bill Vlahos
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