My thought would be to use a modifier key. If the user holds down the Ctrl key while over the text area, change the cursor to a hand, grab the current selection and drag/drop that. I've never done anything like that but it seems reasonable to me ;-}
--- In [email protected], "gareth_arch" <gareth_a...@...> wrote: > > Our end user is wanting us to try to build something where they can drag text > from the left side (in a TextArea) to TextInput boxes on the right hand side. > > I've tried some different ways to try to accomplish this: > > Making the TextArea draggable - This then prevents using the mouse to > highlight the text because as soon as you start to select the text, you are > now dragging the textarea. > > Trying to get the selected text, but it gets deselected as soon as you > "re-click" the selected text. > > My latest solution (which I thought *might* be OK with the end user) is > adding a mouse_up listener to the textarea, which then adds the selected text > to a variable. The user can then double click the TextInput box, and the > previously selected text is added to the TextInput.text This got an "ah, > hmm" from our end user, so I'm trying to figure out something else, or this > will be it :) > > I'm trying to figure out how to keep the text selected "on re-click"...so > highlight text with mouse, left click on selected text (text stays > highlighted), and then I can use the DragManager and some finagling to get > the text to the TextInputs hopefully. Only problem is, as soon as I > re-click, the selected text is deselected. Any way to prevent this from > happening (or any other solutions that someone might have are always welcome)? > > Thanks. >
