Good to know Alex, I'm still a little (ok, a lot) green can you point me at a good tutorial / example to start from?
=] On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 2:48 PM, Alex Harui <aha...@adobe.com> wrote: > There might be a way to use a custom ITreeDataDescriptor to turn every > child into a “branch”. Open but empty folders have a middle drop zone for > dropping “into”. > > > > Alex Harui > > Flex SDK Developer > > Adobe Systems Inc. <http://www.adobe.com/> > > Blog: http://blogs.adobe.com/aharui > > > > *From:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcod...@yahoogroups.com] *On > Behalf Of *Alan Rother > *Sent:* Monday, March 09, 2009 12:34 PM > *To:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com > *Subject:* [flexcoders] Flex 3 Tree - Moving Nodes > > > > Hey All, > > > > I am trying to build a Flex based tree for our content management system > here at work. It needs to represent all of the pages on a given site. I > already have a good working prototype using XML as the dataprovider and i > have a good chunk of the drag and drop functions working well. The problem I > am having is around the dragdrop handler. I need to be able to move any page > to anywhere on the tree, including below (as a child of) any other page in > addition to being able to reorder pages on the same level (same parent node) > > > > I can get it to do one or the other but not both at the same time. As far > as I can tell, Flex doesn't recognize the difference between a drop on a > node and a drop between two nodes. As I think this would solve my problem. > Has anyone tackled this problem before? I basically need a simple way for my > very non-technical users to drag pages for one of two operations, > re-ordering within a section or moving a page to another section. > > > > This ExtJS example is almost exactly what I want my Flex tree to do > > > > http://www.extjs.com/deploy/dev/examples/tree/reorder.html > > > > Except I need to treat every item on the tree as a folder. > > > > =] > > > -- > Alan Rother > Adobe Certified Advanced ColdFusion MX 7 Developer > Manager, Phoenix Cold Fusion User Group, AZCFUG.org > > > -- Alan Rother Adobe Certified Advanced ColdFusion MX 7 Developer Manager, Phoenix Cold Fusion User Group, AZCFUG.org
