Drag and Drop

[Peter Haworth]

Thanks Richard, that looks very nice.  I too would like to hear how to prevent the snap back you mentioned.

I guess I somehow got the impression it wasn't possible to drag a control from one stack to another with the standard drag/drop handlers somewhere in this thread but this shows it is.

Pete Haworth

On Feb 8, 2011, at 6:56 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote:

> Peter Haworth wrote:
> 
> > I guess I should look again at the IDE script and see what it does
> > after a control has been dropped onto a card, I bet that would
> > reveal all!
> 
> Maybe.
> 
> The Rev IDE drag-and-drop routines were written before the overhaul of the drag-and-drop syntax which has since simplified messaging and allowed us to set the dragImage and dragImageOffsets.
> 
> This quick example shows one way to use the more recent syntax to drag-copy and object from one window to another without having to use an intermediary translucent stack to simulate the drag image:
> 
> go url "http://www.fourthworldlabs.com/rev/drag.rev"
> 
> It inserts a frontScript to track the dragMove message, doing the window hit testing there, removing the script when the action is done.
> 
> The only problem I can find with this approach is that it "snaps back" the dragImage to the source, even though the allowDrop has been set to true.
> 
> I've seen this anomaly with other drag actions as well - if anyone here knows a reliable way to prevent that I'm be most grateful.
> 
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> Richard Gaskin
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