Well you could have a duplicate option in the menu that has the option of dupe node or dupe branch. On select you copy all the relevant content and place the "new" duped node as a sibling of the current node. Then the user can drag drop the new node/branch to a new location.

That would save the hassle of trying to do anything to clever in th JS and would be a case of writing a duplicate method for the tree object.

Historically copy has been a commonly requested feature -- but its not a trivial update. Paul, you say your putting your hand up for the job?? ;)

-- geoff
http://www.daemon.com.au/

Paul Harrison wrote:
Hey Neil,

I do like your idea of a cumulative clipboard /viewer and it would be
something to work torwards.  To start off with however,the first
iteration of copy functionality  will as you said - ' replace anything
you have in the clipboard'.   Clicking paste will obviously alert the
user to what they are copying etc and require a confirmation.

Cheers

Paul


[EMAIL PROTECTED] 01/16/04 8:20 PM >>>

Hey Paul,


Like you said, its what people are used to etc, this option could work,
its
not as easy as Drag & Drop but I too can see the issue of dragging and
dropping (mistakes etc...).  It may benefit from a Clipboard
viewer/history
as well where you can purge or look at what you have or had in there.

Would the logic simply be : copy will peplace anything you have in the
clipboard or shall it be culmulitive based on a setting on how many
copies
you can save?

Neil










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To: FarCry Developers
Subject: [farcry-dev] Re: Drag and Drop

Cool.  The gui for this will be a paradigm everyone is used too. Right
click
on a tree object and choose "copy",  then right click on destination
object
and choose "paste".  Figured that really is the easiest way - agreed?.
Paste only appears :

*when something has been 'copied'
*when you have have clicked on a node that the copied object type is
allowed
to site under. eg paste wont appear in your context menu if you've
copied a
nav node and are trying to paste on an image etc.

Paul





[EMAIL PROTECTED] 01/16/04 7:54 PM >>>

Defo!!










-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul
Harrison
Sent: 16 January 2004 11:41
To: FarCry Developers
Subject: [farcry-dev] Re: Drag and Drop

Hey guys,

i've done alot of the groundwork on this already, just haven't got
around to
piecing it together.  Realistically i cant see it getting done prior to
the
2.1 release this coming week, but i will certainly aim for the first
minor
update post release  :)  Ian/Neil - I will send you a copy for testing
when
its ready if you want.

Paul


[EMAIL PROTECTED] 01/16/04 7:14 PM >>>

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


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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!?)

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