On Mon, 26 Feb 2007 21:39:29 -0800, Bill Vlahos wrote: > Klaus has a great demo stack in RevOnLine on dragging and dropping a > file on the computer desktop into a field or stack. What I want to > know is how to drag and drop out of a list field onto the desktop. > > There is a sample drag and drop in the Rev docs using graphics > objects for dragging the name of a color graphic to another object on > the same card. Essentially the object has the script: > > on mouseDown > set the dragData["text"] to the short name of the target > set the borderWidth of the target to 3 > end mouseDown > > on dragEnd > set the borderWidth of the target to 1 > end dragEnd > > > I have two questions. > > 1. How do I get the content of the line of text (the one that is > selected) in a list field that I want to drag from?
You could: set the dragData["text"] to the hilitedText of the target However, the cursor changes to be the "can't drag" cursor, even though you can drop the text into the Message Box or another app without a problem, so you'd have to change the cursor too: on mouseDown lock cursor set cursor to arrow set the dragData["text"] to the hilitedText of the target end mouseDown The problem with *that* is that you're releasing outside of the main card window, so no mouseUp/mouseRelease message will be sent. So you'd need to poll for the mouseState like this: on mouseDown lock cursor set cursor to 24 -- the drag cursor send "checkMouse" to me in 100 milliseconds set the dragData["text"] to the hilitedText of the target end mouseDown on checkMouse if the mouse is up then unlock cursor else send "checkMouse" to me in 100 milliseconds end if end checkMouse > 2. How do I send it outside the stack to the desktop to make a file > on the desktop? Well, if you're just dragging text, then the OS does it for you - when you drag text into the Finder (or Windows Explorer) and release, it will make a clipping file for you - basically it detects the type of dragData ("text" in this case), and handles it for you. However I don't know how to find out exactly *where* the file ends up. That is, what folder, etc. received the clipping. It would really be great if the "dragDestination" could be updated to contain this kind of information, but right now the destination can only be other objects in Rev. Anyone have any ideas on how to find out where the clipping was dropped? Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software, Inc. Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/ _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution