One thought is that the doc specifies to use a container as a drop target, you must use the backgroundColor property of the container to set a color. Otherwise, the background color of the container is transparent, and the Drag and Drop Manager is unable to detect that the mouse pointer is on a possible drop target. Stephen
________________________________ From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of richmcgillicuddy Sent: Saturday, March 03, 2007 11:53 AM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: [flexcoders] Drag Drop Compiler Bug/Problem I have a very (very) simple demo program that is listed below. I was having trouble dropping a tilelist item onto a canvas. I was able to get the drop to work only if I set the toolTip of the canvas. This seems very odd, like the canvas was not initialized yet. The drag operation starts OK enough but I get the cannot drop marker when I try to drop on the canvas, UNLESS I set the tooltip to something. Any ideas? Rich ------------------------------ <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <mx:Application xmlns:mx="http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml <http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml> " layout="absolute" creationComplete="onInit()"> <mx:Script> <![CDATA[ import mx.utils.ObjectProxy; import mx.collections.ArrayCollection; import mx.core.DragSource; import mx.managers.DragManager; import mx.events.*; var anArrayCollection : ArrayCollection = new ArrayCollection(); private function onInit() : void { var thisItem : ObjectProxy = new ObjectProxy(); thisItem.title = "Item 1"; anArrayCollection.addItem(thisItem); thisItem = new ObjectProxy(); thisItem.title = "Item 2"; anArrayCollection.addItem(thisItem); tlTest.dataProvider = anArrayCollection; cvsDropTarget.addEventListener(DragEvent.DRAG_ENTER, onSpaceDragEnter); cvsDropTarget.addEventListener(DragEvent.DRAG_DROP, onSpaceDragDrop); } private function onSpaceDragEnter(event : DragEvent) : void { var dropTarget: Canvas = Canvas(event.currentTarget); // Accept the drag only if the user is dragging data // identified by the 'color' format value. if (event.dragSource != null) { DragManager.acceptDragDrop(dropTarget); } } private function onSpaceDragDrop(event : DragEvent) : void { var thisItem : SimpleThumbnail = new SimpleThumbnail(); thisItem.lblName.text = "Test"; thisItem.x = event.localX; thisItem.y = event.localY; thisItem.width = 200; thisItem.height = 200; cvsDropTarget.addChild(thisItem); } ]]> </mx:Script> <mx:Canvas id="cvsDropTarget" x="0" y="0" width="100%" height="100%" toolTip=" "/> <mx:TileList id="tlTest" x="0" y="0" width="140" height="100%" itemRenderer="SimpleThumbnail" dragEnabled="true" allowMultipleSelection="false" /> </mx:Application> ----------------------------------- // Simple Thumbnail <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <mx:HBox xmlns:mx="http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml <http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml> " width="120" height="120" verticalAlign="middle" cornerRadius="10" borderStyle="solid" backgroundColor="#c0c0c0"> <mx:Label text="{data.title}" id="lblName" fontSize="28" textAlign="center" width="100%"/> </mx:HBox>