Rails spinoffs - Sep 2005 - Drag & Drop between two browser windows??

Hi All,

I''m just starting out with RoR and scriptaculous so I hope this is the
right forum for this question. :)

I''d like to use the drag & drop feature to allow users to copy text
from
a browse/search result to a text box across windows.
For example if a user wants to browse for an existing tags, that list
might be too long for a auto complete textfield to be helpful.
So I''m spawning a new window where users a enter a search string or
browse the list. The results are displayed in a list the same window
using AJAX. Now I''d like users to be able to grab the bullet in the
list
and drag it to the text box in the original window.

I''ve been trying to find some information on this but all the examples
I''ve seen show items being transferred from one list to another within
the same window.

Is drag & drop across browser windows possible with script.aculo.us? 
If so, does anyone have any suggestions about how I might go about this 
or perhaps point me in the right direction?

Thanks!!
Linda :)

Hi !

I don''t think that would be possible.  The elements are tied to their 
owner document, so they can''t cross the document''s edge.

Bye,
Fran?ois

Linda Coleman said the following on 2005-09-13 19:26:
> I''d like to use the drag & drop feature to allow users to copy
text from
> a browse/search result to a text box across windows.