problem with drag-dropping a text string

J. Landman Gay jacque at hyperactivesw.com
Tue Apr 8 19:54:34 EDT 2008


Peter Brigham wrote:

> The original selected text is dropped without modification into the 
> target field. The dragDrop handler is getting triggered, since setting a 
> breakpoint and doing the drag-drop opens up the script in the debugger, 
> and the data is manipulated correctly as I step through the script, so 
> at the end mLine contains the proper string -- but the original string 
> is what appears in the target field

The dragdrop message is sent after the user drops the text, so it's too 
late by then. Instead, try the text parsing in dragEnter.

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Jacqueline Landman Gay         |     jacque at hyperactivesw.com
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