Re: [flexcoders] lists and DD

2005-08-04 Thread Aldo Bucchi
hked...just what I was thinking of when you sent it. Me > thinks this will be a better approach then my new post with subect > line: drg and expan..outlook style (was Re: [flexcoders] lists and > DD). Using a list will be easier to prepopulate from a DB and get the > data from to populat

Re: drg and expan..outlook style (was Re: [flexcoders] lists and DD)

2005-08-04 Thread Douglas Knudsen
oh gessh, doh. damn arithematic. Thanks again! off to get this to work with a list instead. DK On 8/4/05, Manish Jethani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 8/5/05, Douglas Knudsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > these two ops cancel each other out. any ideas? > > > > >

Re: drg and expan..outlook style (was Re: [flexcoders] lists and DD)

2005-08-04 Thread Manish Jethani
On 8/5/05, Douglas Knudsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > these two ops cancel each other out. any ideas? > > } else { > selector.width = lastW - deltaX ; > selector.x += deltaX; >

Re: [flexcoders] lists and DD

2005-08-04 Thread Douglas Knudsen
yes! wichked...just what I was thinking of when you sent it. Me thinks this will be a better approach then my new post with subect line: drg and expan..outlook style (was Re: [flexcoders] lists and DD). Using a list will be easier to prepopulate from a DB and get the data from to populate a DB

drg and expan..outlook style (was Re: [flexcoders] lists and DD)

2005-08-04 Thread Douglas Knudsen
my reason for needing this is to build a control similar to outlooks calendar thingy where you can drag and expand an event time span on a calendar thing. From another suggestion, I'm using canvas now with a box. The blow code, warning the colours are absolutely horrible, it is just an example af

Re: [flexcoders] lists and DD

2005-08-04 Thread Manish Jethani
On 8/5/05, Douglas Knudsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > but which on eof those items is the mouse on? Say the user selected 5 > items contiguously then initiated a drag on them. I want to know > which item teh mouse is on. Listen for the mouseDown event... http://www.macromedia.com/2003/mxml";

Re: [flexcoders] lists and DD

2005-08-04 Thread Douglas Knudsen
interesting...thanks for the reply. one way I just thought of was to ensure that all list items were the same width, something in my problem I can assume. Then based on mouseX and these widths should be able to figure out which item the mouse is over in the slected group. DK On 8/4/05, Aldo

Re: [flexcoders] lists and DD

2005-08-04 Thread Aldo Bucchi
Hi, If there is no clean way to do it ( i would still look further ), a nasty hack would be something like this: - when the drag starts. - determine the mc below the mouse at that time ( take a look at lowlevelevents, if that doesn't do it, I can give you a snippet that works just fine ) - traver

Re: [flexcoders] lists and DD

2005-08-04 Thread Douglas Knudsen
but which on eof those items is the mouse on? Say the user selected 5 items contiguously then initiated a drag on them. I want to know which item teh mouse is on. DK On 8/4/05, Manish Jethani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 8/4/05, Douglas Knudsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Consider using a

Re: [flexcoders] lists and DD

2005-08-04 Thread Manish Jethani
On 8/4/05, Douglas Knudsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Consider using a list and the drag+drop manager. Assume the user has > selected three items in the list contiguously. Can I determine which > of the three items the users mouse is on upon a click and hold? I > can't seem to see anything in

[flexcoders] lists and DD

2005-08-04 Thread Douglas Knudsen
Consider using a list and the drag+drop manager. Assume the user has selected three items in the list contiguously. Can I determine which of the three items the users mouse is on upon a click and hold? I can't seem to see anything in the docs as of yet. -- Douglas Knudsen http://www.cubicleman