On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 5:32 PM, Resseguie <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> I'm writing an application that allows users to drag items from a list
> and drop them into one of several "bins". I got this working just fine
> using UI Draggable/Droppable.
>
> Now I'm trying to enhance the application. When the user drags an item
> to one of the bins and hovers ( using "over"), I open up a new panel
> with several "sub bins" that they can also drop the item into (i.e. to
> further classify the item if they wish).
>
> I tried to accomplish this by simply making the same call to droppable
> on the new sub bins, but that doesn't work. I realize now that the
> drop zones are calculated when the drag begins. I tried setting the
> refreshPositions:true option, but the performance is too poor for what
> I need. Instead, I wondered if there was a way to programmatically
> force a refreshPositions calculation once the new panel is in place? I
> haven't found a way to do so, and was hoping someone would have a
> suggestion.
>

Sorry there isn't currently a way to do this. Seems like it would be really
nice to have a refresh method you could call when needed. I've added a
feature request ticket:

http://dev.jqueryui.com/ticket/4911


>
> The closest I've found to a possible solution via Google is this
> http://bit.ly/ZbfQC but I'm not sure I understand what they're
> suggesting there.
>

That code is accessing internals, not a public API, so is not recommended.

- Richard

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