At 8:50 AM +0100 23/7/1999, Hugh Senior wrote:
>>Is there a way to implement drag and drop:
>>
>>within a MetaCard project/application?
>>
>>between two MetaCard project/applications?
>>
>>between a MetaCard project/application and another application?
>
>
>Not as a built-in functionality AFAIK. However, I am prototyping various
>ideas for language activities at the moment, one of which is dragging
>"answer" buttons to "question" buttons for a simulated D&D for objects:
>Using the "grab me" command and then intersect() when the mouse is
>released, the source and destination buttons are modified to reflect the
>user's choice.
>
>The only thing I cannot get to work, of course, is any dynamic display such
>as a hilited border around an intersected object during the "grab".
Hi Hugh
Instead of "grab", a mouseMove handler will allow you to do other
stuff (such as highliting borders) during the move. I've used this
(also in language activities) for shuffling words around. I use it to
highlight the target area when the object being moved is in a
"droppable" position.
Cheers
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