Paul,
I have never used YUI before. Actually after using jquery a bit, learning
other frameworks seems difficult and tiresome :D Anyway thanks for the
information.

- Sriram

On Sat, Sep 6, 2008 at 9:31 PM, Paul Bakaus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:

> Hi there,
>
> script.aculo.us and Dojo are actually kind of "cheating" :)
> Both of them use rectangular images that simply show a round element, and
> everything else is transparent.
> It's not directly visible because you can only start dragging on the
> header.
>
> Only in YUI you can define regions - so your handle is actually a circle:
> http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/examples/dragdrop/dd-circle.html
> The element, however, still is a retangle. The only possibility to have
> elements like you said is by using SVG,
> and making SVG elements draggable. It should actually work, but I haven't
> tried it yet.
>
> Cheers,
> Paul
>
>
> On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 12:37 PM, NightFlash <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:
>
>>
>> I want to use a plugin(like draw) or any widget to paint a polygonal
>> shape in the canvas or as SVG. What I want to do is that, I need to
>> drag/drop, select this shape as if it were a DOM element. The painted
>> shape must be made to behave like a DOM element, so that we can use
>> CSS to provide background-color, borders etc.. etc..
>>
>> Is such a thing doable, with the current plugins we've got?
>>
>> The homepage of scriptaculous shows selectable, draggable circles.
>> http://script.aculo.us
>> I saw a similar effect in a dojo demo too -
>> http://turtle.dojotoolkit.org/~dante/dojo.moj.oe/mojo.html<http://turtle.dojotoolkit.org/%7Edante/dojo.moj.oe/mojo.html>
>>
>> Is something like this present already in jquery. I would love to use
>> such a widget.
>>
>> thanks,
>> sriram.
>>
>>
>>
>
>
> --
> Paul Bakaus
> UI Architect
> --
> http://paulbakaus.com
> http://www.linkedin.com/in/paulbakaus
>
> >
>

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