Thanks TAG, I appreciate the response. I did search around before posting, apologies to all for regurgitating a known feature.
Also thanks for the work around suggestions, but we tried to push those options during the design phase. So they'll get what they asked for! On May 1, 2:20 pm, Tom Gregory <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This issue comes up every month or so. > > What you're experiencing is a "feature" with Sortables > implementation, caused by the CSS spec. The draggable is a child of > the list, which is scrollable. Thus, the drabble must necessarily be > bound to the same scroll region as its parent. When you drag over to > the new list, you're altering it parent to be the new list. If you > want to try and hack scriptaculous to get around this, the you'll > need to make the draggable a child of some element higher in the > hierarchy than the list. > > There are some better ways to get the functionality you want w/o drag/ > drop anyway. The simplest is to just use select boxes, with > directional arrows in the middle (you can also have the list items > respond to double-click events). If you're wanting something more > fancy, do a styled list with arrows to the right of each list item. > Then all the user has to do is click to move the item over, rather > than drag. It's significantly more efficient if order doesn't > matter, especially when moving multiple items back and forth. > > TAG > > On May 1, 2007, at 3:07 PM, Matt wrote: > > > > > > > Thanks Christope, but I do have both of the lists in a scrollable div. > > So basically I have two scrollable divs to drag stuff between. If you > > have to scroll one list to find what you want to drag, you can't see > > what you're dragging. > > > I have an example of the problem I'm seeing: > >http://mrigali.googlepages.com/draggage.html > > > To replicate, use the left div and scroll to the bottom. Choose an > > item and start to drag it to the right. Once you have moved over the > > div on the right, you can no longer see what you are dragging. > > > If you don't scroll the left div, the drag is perfect. > > > Any help would be awesome. > > > On Apr 21, 3:59 am, Christophe Porteneuve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Hey Matt, > > >> Have you tried leaving your <ul> styled normally, and putting it in a > >> scrollable <div>? I know this approach usually works for my own > >> Sortables. > > >> -- > >> Christophe Porteneuve a.k.a. TDD > >> "[They] did not know it was impossible, so they did it." --Mark Twain > >> Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Spinoffs" 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/rubyonrails-spinoffs?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
