Ok, so I had a look at the Palette component. Its very nice, but I don't think it really helps me as it uses a select box (i.e. a pre-existing wicket component) as a 'bin' for the droppables. This really abstracts out the main part of my problem - how to bind and manipulate a bunch of divs with a custom component.
To explain further: what I will end up with is a droppable 'bin' (a div) which the user has been happily dragging stuff (other divs) onto - and possibly sorting etc. The hole in my knowledge here is how to associate these inner divs (the things that have been dropped) with some Wicket component on the server side. I can associated the 'bin' div with a MarkupContainer or something but I'm not sure how to dynamically keep track of its inner divs once the user has submitted. I've tried a solution using a ListView nested within a form but I'm not entirely happy with it. For example, the number of 'slots' to drag things onto has to be known at construction time - i.e. the user can not drag on 11 things if only 10 slots (say, nested textfields) have been created at construction time (also I would prefer not to have pre-determined 'slots' - just an area onto which many divs can be dragged). I would like to use Jquery to do all the fancy front-end stuff (creating new 'slots' on the fly, sorting etc) and just bind the results (all the dragged-on divs) to some component in Wicket. I've been playing about with wicket for about a month and this question actually reflects an area of the Framework that I am not really getting so far - how markup is bound to components at the lower level. I've read many examples and the excellent Wicket in Action book but, understandably, they seem to focus on how to use existing components and only briefly touch on how to create your own components and how to really 'get at' the underlying markup. Any help, hints or pointers to further reading would be much appreciated as, my current problem aside, I feel this is an area I need to crack before I go any further. Thanks - Neil. Serkan Camurcuoglu wrote: > > it seems like you're talking about the DnD version of the Palette > component in wicket extensions.. See its source code, maybe it will give > you some idea.. > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/DHTML-DnD-best-practice--tp20010633p20029961.html Sent from the Wicket - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
