Taking what Ian has said, as well as Neil, I am thinking that maybe what could be done fairly easily is something more along Ian's request.....
It is currently possible to drag and drop a nav item into the WYSYWYG editor and have it include the link. Maybe it would be possible to add in dragging of a content object and have it go out, grab the content, and insert it at the cursor point (rather than inserting a link). So dragging NAV inserts a link, dragging CONTENT inserts the content. I realise this does not necessarily match with Neil's idea of copying a nav node - but I think it would probably get very complicated. It does meet Ian's idea of creating a new page somewhere in the nav and dragging existing content into the editor though. To do what Neil wants, maybe the context menu could have a COPY option added to it that overrode the MOVE that normally happens with the drag and drop. The COPY state would be a single shot thing. Another possibility would be to see if the state of the CTRL key could be trapped (think it can) and trigger the COPY state instead of the MOVE. Regards, Gary Menzel PS: I am not specifically saying I can see a 5 minute build for any of the above other than seeing that it is just a different facility based on something that already exists in FarCry. I think Paul is responsible for a lot of the drag and drop functionality and may be able to comment on these ideas. > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of > Robertson-Ravo, Neil (RX) > Sent: Friday, 16 January 2004 9:22 PM > To: FarCry Developers > Subject: [farcry-dev] Re: Drag and Drop > > > :-) > > Its all about workflow and this would severly increase the way a site is > constructed.......I am trying to think of how it could be > achieved from the > GUI perspective as at the moment it's a JS confirm which indicated an > objects move - something which only gives OK and Cancel - ideally > you would > want a system which states - 'Move' and 'Copy' but as you know JS does not > allow that. > > I think it's a good feature to have though...... > > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ian Welsh > Sent: 16 January 2004 11:14 > To: FarCry Developers > Subject: [farcry-dev] Re: Drag and Drop > > Can I add a 'yes please' (when someone has time!) to this one. > > Many of our pages are modified copies of previous ones (e.g. course lists > updated for date changes). Of course, for the moment we can just > cut'n'paste > html into a newly created page's body, but it would be nice to either have > an option to copy a nav node/page as a draft from the tree or have a 'use > this page as a template' type action. > > Regards > Ian Welsh > > > "Robertson-Ravo, Neil (RX)" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in > message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > Hey, > > > > Is there any way that with the drag and drop you can actually > copy/duplicate > > what you are dragging rather than moving it? This would be a real > > timesaver. > > > > (maybe its already in there!?) > > > > N > > > > This e-mail is from Reed Exhibitions (Oriel House, 26 The Quadrant, > > Richmond, Surrey, TW9 1DL, United Kingdom), a division of Reed > > Business, Registered in England, Number 678540. It contains > > information which is confidential and may also be privileged. It is > > for the exclusive use of > the > > intended recipient(s). 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