Re: Scriptaculous Sortables: Dynamically adding a new li in the onUpdate Callback

Gareth Evans
Thu, 08 Mar 2007 00:43:34 -0000

just a guess but try storing a reference to the sortable when you create it,
so you can destroy it later- calling the create method more than once will
have odd effects.

Gareth


On 3/8/07, Edward Trochim
<etrochim-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
wrote:
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> I have two sortable lists that I can drag elements between, list A and
> list B. When I drag an element from A to B I want to be able to
> dynamically create a new element in A. I can do that just fine and
> call Sortable.create again for A and B to make the new element
> draggable.
>
> However, this is where the problem is. The two Sortable.create calls
> are taking place inside the onUpdate callback. So before the dragged
> element has settled into place in B Sortable.create has already been
> called on B. There isn''t a problem immediately but when I attempt
to
> reorder the elements in B there will often be random displacements of
> the element being dragged around. This only happens when I call
> Sortable.create on list B (which it seems I need to do because if I
> don''t then after I call Sortable.create on list A I can no longer
drag
> elements in list B). How can I fix this issue?
>
> Here is a screenshot showing the problem (list A on the left, list B
> on the right): http://paradox.mynuts.org/problem.png
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