Paul and others interested, Thanks for your input -- you could be correct regarding the usefulness of this "feature"
I have a tabnavigator that has as children a "search results datagrid" and in another tab a "favorites datagrid" -- essentially the same grid with a different dataProvider. To "add to favourites" I have implemented a "right click - Add to favorites" context menu over the results datagrid. I will have an "add to favorites" icon in each row and was thinking of doing drag/drop where you drag the row from the "results grid" up onto the "favourites" tab and drop it. There are other tabs so I need to check what tab the user is "over" to accept drop or not. Thus the need to try and find out which of my Tabnavigators children I am "over". I am probably happy NOT to add this feature but when I "user tested" a prototype (on an audience of 1 - my wife) it was a feature that was requested ;-) ----- Original Message ----- From: Wayne McFetridge To: [email protected] <mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com> Sent: Wednesday, July 05, 2006 1:13 AM Subject: [flexcoders] Flex 2 - Drag-n-Drop with TabNavigator Happy Independence Day to American Based Flex developers. I am trying to drag and drop over a TabNavigator -- ie drag something over a "tab" to have it open that tab I'd be curious to know how this drag and drop idea improves upon clicking the tab and then dropping inside the open tab? Are you trying to do two things at once - replacing click plus drop with a single drop if the tab isn't already open? Personally I think it sounds dangerous. If you drop target is inside an open tab, then all well and good, but dropping onto the unopened tab itself is prone to having the user drop onto the wrong tab, which isn't too user friendly. I also think it's a behaviour likely to confuse the users. I don't think I've ever seen an application behave like this - it doesn't follow the tab metaphor. If I've got the wrong idea please tell me! Paul Am I overloooking something really simple ? Hope so Thanks Wayne McFetridge -- -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
