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Is there any plans to extended the drag & drop triggers?

The triggers are limited at the moment and reduce the flexibility of the built in drag & drop features. There is no ability to have a trigger for drop anywhere it always has to be related to drop zone.

So if you could have a drop anywhere trigger, or object moved trigger would help develop some better drag and drop applications.

Also dragged and dropped object don't maintain their layer. If you set all objects to a layer, say set to Layer2. Once any object moved or dragged to any location the layers are set to Layer0

not sure if I'm missing something, but - your drop zone could cover the whole page? then as soon as you move/drop the object anywhere you can trigger an action...

Joe,

All of these can be solved using some script and the the wonderful 'this'.

Mack

Was in the middle of posting similar drop anywhere trigger request, this solution works great. But if DW could add a drop trigger anywhere trigger, on the item that is being dragged. So if it is dropped anywhere we can do some action or script. Currently you are only limited to recording or performing actions on drops into drop zones, very limiting.

Right I'm off to implement recommend solution, thanks. Searching for solution on this forum is a great way to find solutions.

Keep in mind what a drag is...
It's just a series of events: a mouseDown in conjunction with a mouseMove, followed by a mouseUp.

You can script just about any drag operation you want by keeping track of mouse position throughout the drag...

Paul

I agree, i use drag and drop a lot in my applications, I Would love to see some awesome effects in this category. When you see films like James Bond and they can simply flick an image away and its gone or the ability to stretch and "Wobbly Window" an image set to drag and drop. Im not sure if it possible in the latest versions of Opus but i would love the idea of allowing you to drag an image to a certain place in a window and when you restart the application - its still in the same position...


These are just a few ideas i reckon would be great in opus, maybe some visual effects in drag and drop like Compiz Fusion..


thanks,

Jake

mackavi,
Please expand a bit on the use of

What is the difference with above and following usual syntax? first time coming across this.<variable name>




eomc40

this is a keyword that refers to the calling object whether its native, user or host.

Imagine adding the following script action to a picture object called pictureOne.

this.Hide()

The line above calls the method Hide(), with no parameters, but passes the calling object (pictureOne) using the this keyword. If you could get access to the code inside the Hide method you could use this to control any object that called the function.

Mack

Hi Mackavi,


I was reading your posted file here and came across the code

this.down = this.getposition()

and wondered what the left hand side of the "=" sign meant. That's very new to me as a construct and wondered what the difference that has over

var down = this.getposition(), is it a way to capture array results?

The difference is that mine is object orientated (programming) with the object's property assigned the data whereas your variable is abstract from the object.

Mack

Hi Mackavi, is 'this' new in v7? I could find no reference to it in the help file for 6.4 script.

Many thanks, Kurt.

Hi Kurt,

Don't know if it's in the help - but it's not a new thing. It's fundamental ECMA script so has probably always been there.

Mack