Thanks :) For the dragging stuff, just check out the source of Panel. There's code in there that I often copy/paste into my own stuff to handle dragging the exact same way.
On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 5:25 PM, Josh McDonald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Doug, you're a store (and distribution point) of much useful Flex kung-fu :) > > I didn't think of doing that last time I was messing with drag-n-drop, but > it's a great idea. > > On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 6:02 AM, Doug McCune <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> For basic dragging stuff, here's typically what I do. Have a mouse >> down listener on whatever component you want to drag. On mouse down >> you keep track of the coordinates where the user pressed. Then you add >> a mouse move listener to the system manager. Also add a mouse up >> listener to system manager. Then when the user moves the mouse (which >> you catch with the system manager listener), perform the calculation >> of how far from the original mouse down position the mouse is and move >> the component to the right place. Then when you catch the mouse up >> event (again, from system manager), you remove the mouse move listener >> and you're done. >> >> See the code in the Panel class in the Flex framework for an example >> of this type of dragging. The big thing to know is that you want to >> use mouse move and mouse up events from the system manager, not from >> the component itself. If you use the component itself you'll end up >> losing the mouse movement if the user drags quickly off the component, >> or you might get stuck in endless dragging if the mouse is released >> while not over the component. >> >> You should also probably have a listener for when the mouse leaves the >> stage and stop dragging at that point too, since not doing that can >> make the drag operation continue after the release the mouse (if they >> move the mouse off your app and the release). >> >> Doug >> >> On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 12:30 PM, gwangdesign <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> wrote: >> > Sorry if this question should be better showing up at the >> > flexcomponent group. I didn't have any luck there so far;) >> > >> > Suppose I am motivated enough to roll up my sleeves to do something >> > like what McCune is doing here at tileUI.com: >> > >> > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0N7tgF7OOM >> > >> > Just for the drag part to get started, am I better off implementing >> > the darg-drop framework that Flex provide or should I start from the >> > more basic mouseUp/mouseDown? >> > >> > I guess this question is for every Flex guru besides Doug;) I >> > appreciate it. >> > >> > >> >> ------------------------------------ >> >> -- >> Flexcoders Mailing List >> FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt >> Alternative FAQ location: >> https://share.acrobat.com/adc/document.do?docid=942dbdc8-e469-446f-b4cf-1e62079f6847 >> Search Archives: >> http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.comYahoo! Groups Links >> >> >> > > > > -- > "Therefore, send not to know For whom the bell tolls. It tolls for thee." > > http://flex.joshmcdonald.info/ > > :: Josh 'G-Funk' McDonald > :: 0437 221 380 :: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
