Drag N Drop Problems

[j_uprichard]

I am currently using DW MX 2004 and have installed the appropraite
CourseBuilder extension. I am trying to insert it on a website/ webpages that
uses Templates. Now, DW inserts a fix for using Templates... but the drag and
drop feature still does not work, i.e. whenever you try and select the image to
drag the cursor changes to a locked icon. Can someone please shed some light
as to why this is not working ?????
Any help is greatly appreciated.

[danilocelic *TMM*]

j_uprichard wrote:

> I am currently using DW MX 2004 and have installed the appropraite
> CourseBuilder extension. I am trying to insert it on a website/ webpages that
> uses Templates. Now, DW inserts a fix for using Templates... but the drag and
> drop feature still does not work, i.e. whenever you try and select the image to
> drag the cursor changes to a locked icon. Can someone please shed some light
> as to why this is not working ?????

Which browser are you using?

Did you apply the NS6+ patch:
[url]http://www.macromedia.com/cfusion/exchange/index.cfm?view=sn120#loc=en_us&view=sn121&viewName =Dreamweaver%20Extension&extID=1005202[/url]

The support info for that patch has some info you may want to read as well.

Beyond that can't help as I don't use that extension.
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[Joel Racicot]

Hi, did you ever resolve this? I'm building a drag n drop interaction and I've
got what sounds like the same problem. The problem is the same in that
clicking in the middle of the drag element show the cursor as locked. With IE
6, the bottom of the actual drag handle for the drag element is about 50px
above the top of the drag element and is the size of the drag element. Seems
to be a problem with the js that sets the position of the drag handle.

I'd love to find out how to fix this. I've had a look at the javascript files
that implement these functions and compared them to the Netscape patch and
there really isn't anything in there that would solve this problem.

Thanks

Joel

[Joel Racicot]

OK, so I figured it out at 5 AM last Saturday. The reason it was acting up
is that I built the drag n drop and then applied a template to it. Before the
template, it was behaving correctly. After the template, not correctly. The
are a number of layers in the template to ensure accurate positioning of
various elements (toolbar/banner, course and module titles, etc.). When the
template was applied, the images etc. in the drag interaction stayed in place
as positions by the CSS included in the layer tags. The drag handle/area shift
up approx. 50 pixels.

The solution for me was to move the interaction to the beginning of the first
editable region in the page. It then forced the interaction to the top of the
page and gave me what I was looking for.

Joel