[thelist] drag and drop

[Richard Bennett]

Hi,
There are several sorts of Drag-drop
You can select some text on a webpage, and drag it over another page (or a
frame) release it, and that page can get the text-value (In IE at least) .
Nice article here:
http://tech.irt.org/articles/js204/#3

Or, you can make a DIV dragable, using DHTML. This only works on the same
page, and not across frames. You can simulate cross-frame dragging, by
having a second DIV, in the second frame, that moves with the first, coming
into view as the mouse enters the second frame. This could work
cross-browser. (a bit tricky though).
I did make one like that once, but I can't find it right now, there's quite
a few dragging and drag/drop examples on my site though:
http://www.richardinfo.com/
they use the DYNAPI library:
http://dynapi.sourceforge.net

oh yeah, there was a little test I made, which has two frames, with
dragobjects. synching two objects to move together would not be a big deal
in this case:
http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/*checkout*/dynapi/dynapi/test
s/drag_frames.html


Cheers,
Richard.



----- Original Message -----
From: "Tim Kuhn, Marla Adams" <timmarla1 at attbi.com>

Greetings to all,
I have been given the task to see if it is possible to create a drag and
drop script. Now what the needs are; this has to be created with JavaScript,
the object that is being dragged has to drag across frames and this is
information that is being dragged that will be dropped into a form. This has
to be cross browser back to versions 4. I can't seem to make anything drag
across the frame and I don't know if it is possible to drag information into
a form. Thanks for any help you can offer.