Rails spinoffs - Feb 2007 - drag to/insert_html into another window : is is possible?

Hi,

I''d like to build an interface where users drag objects from a main
window to a separate/child one, and the other way around, from the
child window into the master window.

Is this possible?

TIA

Alain

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Alain Ravet wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I''d like to build an interface where users drag objects from a
main
> window to a separate/child one, and the other way around, from the
> child window into the master window.
>
> Is this possible?
>
> TIA
>
> Alain
>   
I don''t believe it is possible to capture drag events between windows, 
but it is certainly possible to create a pop-up looking div that acts 
like a window but enables dragging elements and/or receiving dragged 
elements.  There are several popular JavaScript libraries that create 
such pop-looking divs. Here are a few:

http://prototype-window.xilinus.com/
http://www.brainjar.com/dhtml/windows/demo.html
http://errorcoding.com/demo/jsWindows/

--Ken Snyder



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Ken,

Thanks, that technique works fine that way (with prototype-window).
The only problem is that it''s one more 60k javascript library to send
to the browser, but that will do for now.

Alain

    > it is certainly possible to create a pop-up looking div that acts
    > like a window but enables dragging elements and/or receiving dragged
    > elements.  There are several popular JavaScript libraries that create
    > such pop-looking divs. Here are a few:
    >
    > http://prototype-window.xilinus.com/
    > http://www.brainjar.com/dhtml/windows/demo.html
    > http://errorcoding.com/demo/jsWindows/

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