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    #1

    Drag Drop

    Is it possible to create any kind of Drag&Drop functionality with A5? I need to allow a user to drag one control onto another and for the target control to react to this as an event. Possible? Thank you,

    Warren Shore
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    RE: Drag Drop

    Warren,

    No, I don't think so.

    Vers 6, not yet released, will be supporting ActiveX controls more fully. Perhaps that will permit you to use a 3rd party tool to add this kind of functionality.

    -- tom

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      #3
      RE: Drag Drop

      Tom:

      Thanks for taking the time to answer. I thought V6 was to be rolled out this past week-end, full feature-list, all that. Guess not. Thanks again,

      Warren

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        #4
        RE: Drag Drop

        Hi Warren

        I have wondered about this and decided to play with it, coming with something that might work or you.

        I created two hotspots on a form.

        First hotspot had an event for "on push". Set a value for a variable).

        Second hotspot had a flyover event. Inserted the value into another field. This could just as easily play a script.

        So I clicked on the first hot spot and dragged my pointer to the second hotspot released the mouse button.

        Don't know enough about what you want to accomplish but this might give you an avenue to explore/experiment with to give you the results you want.

        Robert

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          #5
          RE: Drag Drop

          Hi Robert:

          Thanks for taking the time. It gets me about 80% home. I'll see what I can do.

          Warren

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            #6
            RE: Drag Drop

            Amazing, for the most part, A5v5 is only limited by one's imagination. Unfortunately, I wasn't able to attend the conference this year so it's very difficult to imagine what v6 will be like.

            Has anyone found more than 24 hours in a day?

            Still looking for summer.

            kenn
            TYVM :) kenn

            Knowing what you can achieve will not become reality until you imagine and explore.

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              #7
              RE: Drag Drop

              ""Vers 6, not yet released, will be supporting ActiveX controls more fully. Perhaps that will permit you to use a 3rd party tool to add this kind of functionality.""

              Well, sort of. Drag 'n' drop is a lot more complex topic than it might at first glance appear.

              The kind of DnD Warren is asking about is internal to a program. The drag begins on one control in a program and ends on a different control of the same program, often the same window. In theory, the Alpha dev team could allow that just by exposing certain Windows messages. In practice, coming up with a system that would be both easy and powerful enough would be a bit more work.

              This is different than the sort of DnD that would occur between two Alpha 5 programs, i.e., two apps running in two separate A5 sessions.

              It's still a different kind of DnD that occurs when you drop an object from the desktop. And, at one point, that was different from the kind of DnD you'd get from an ActiveX control.

              I'm far from an ActiveX expert, but every time I've seen an ActiveX control used, its Drag-Drop events were mapped to the internal systems' drag-drop mechanism. It might be tricky to handle the event, in other words, even if you do find a control that will generate it!

              In any case, it's going to be very limited, or you'd eventually be swapping out all your A5 controls for ActiveX. Heh.

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                RE: Drag Drop

                Beginning to sound like my use of the word "perhaps" was wisely chosen. -- tom

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