Hi, unfortunately there is no "good" way to do that right now. What you would have to do is to set some variables in the over/out callbacks in the droppables, i.e. window.currentDroppable, and in the draggables drag callback check for window.currentDroppable.
On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 3:16 PM, drzax <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm trying to implement a very specific kind of drag and drop sorting > for which sortables isn't really suitable. Therefore I'm rolling my > own using draggables and droppables. > > I need to calculate the exact position within the droppable of the > draggable being dragged over it. > > I can't do this from any of the droppable callbacks because there are > none that fire on every mouse move. The only callback I can find that > fires on every mouse move is the 'move' callback for the draggable, > but I can't find any way to access the droppable which the draggable > is currently over from that callback (the ui object doesn't contain > any reference to the droppable). > > So, does anyone know the solution here? On each mouse move I need to > know where the draggable is currently positioned within the droppable > it's over. Short of that I need something I can use to calculate that > (the absolutePosition and height and width of both draggable and > droppable). > > Cheers, > Simon > > > > -- Paul Bakaus UI Architect -- http://paulbakaus.com http://www.linkedin.com/in/paulbakaus --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "jQuery UI" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/jquery-ui?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
