For now, even though it feels like a messy solution, I've simply
grabbed the selected what should be the droppable using $
('.droppableOverClass') in the draggable's move callback.

Like I said, not awesome, but it works.

S.

On Oct 15, 12:40 pm, "Paul Bakaus" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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.comhttp://www.linkedin.com/in/paulbakaus
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