Drag and drop using drag manager

[mmahuika]

Can someone help? I am dealing with drag and drop and want to be able to drop
an item in a VHorizontal box. If I set a background pic then I can drop the
item onto that but why does it require a target?! Surely I can capture the
event without this.

[ntsiii]

Post a small sample app, I'll take a look.

Obviously, the drop needs a target, but you should be able to use the VBox as the parent.

Tracy

[mmahuika]

Thought I had replied but I can't see it so here goes again...

The main problem is that the user can move custom components between
boxes(VHorizontalBoxes). If they move all components out of one box then they
should be allowed to move the components back into the empty one. But the drag
and drop code was within the custom component rather than the box. To get
around this I managed to 'fake' a target by setting the background colour of
the VHorizontalBox. To do this I added functions to move the component then
added the following code to the boxes.

dragEnter="doDragEnter(event)" dragDrop="doDragDrop(event)"
backgroundColor="#7D8FA8"

If you can think of a better way of doing this please let me know :)

[ntsiii]

Ahh, actually that sounds like a reasonable approach.
Tracy

[mmahuika]

Thanks Tracy I'm glad you agree. All I need to do now is move all the drag and drop events out of the custom component so it is all in the one place... :(