The start event is working as designed. You may want to look at the sort and
change events:

http://docs.jquery.com/UI/Sortable#event-sort

http://docs.jquery.com/UI/Sortable#event-change

- Richard

On Sat, Jan 9, 2010 at 3:55 PM, Amiran <kvintesse...@gmail.com> wrote:

> I've got this little script with two sortable that are basically file
> folders. When I drag from one list to the other I have to check
> whether a file with the same exact name already exists. I cannot check
> the list when it's already dropped, because the dom has changed and it
> would always return a positive. So I thought I'd save the other list
> into an array at the start of the drag and search for the dragged
> element inside this array. This is where I encountered a problem: the
> start event is not a single event, but a continuous one, which I
> thought it logically shouldn't be. When I have:
>
> start: alert('Sorting starts');
>
> ... then the alert will pop up every time I drag the mouse, not only
> when the sorting starts.
>
> Is it supposed to behave like that and should I merely use another
> event - or is this a bug?
>
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