I have some drag and drop to do that is just a little different from the
scriptaculous demos. My application has a shopping cart-like setup,
where the user needs to drag an item from the main content area to a
particular position in the cart. I don''t want to be able to sort items
in the content area. That is, the target is a Sortable list, but the
source is not.
Problem one was that I don''t actually want to move the dragged item, I
want to show a label next to the cursor instead with a more consise
summary of what''s being dragged. It looks like I''ll be able to
get
around this by having the drag handle be the larger content item, but
the draggable be a hidden div with my label info, that is shown during
the startEffect step.
Problem 2 remains for now: The first list (it happens to be a <UL>) is
not sortable, but I want to drag to a sortable list. Setting up both
lists as Sortables and setting constraints to prevent dragging from the
first list to itself (blocking sorting/re-ordering) didn''t work, but
would be the neatest workaround. Failing that, I''m left with making
Draggables with the first list''s list items, and dynamically adding
Sortable members when the drag affects the second list. Ugh. If this is
even possible, its not going to be pretty.
Has anyone tackled anything similar? Any thoughts?
Sam
-i-am
