low level drag and drop as easy as scriptaculous

[harobed]

Hi,

sometimes dojo.dnd mechanism is overkill for my need and I would like use something like scriptaculous drag and drop mechanism.

In Scriptaculous, to perform drag and drop you need two things :

• Draggable objet
• Droppable.add method

Example :

var drag = new Draggable(

'id_of_draggable_element', {

revert: true, ghosting: true, onEnd: function() {

console.log("draggable end");

}

}

);

Droppable.add(

'id_of_droppable_element', {

onHover: function(draggable_element, droppable_element) {

console.log(draggable_element); console.log(droppable_element);

}, onDrop: function(draggable_element, droppable_element, event)

{

console.log(draggable_element); console.log(droppable_element); console.log(event);

}

}

);

I think this is lower level than dojo.dnd mechanism.

Few month ago, I've spoke about it in mailing list : http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.web.dojo.user/31296/focus=31297

I've suggested to develop this feature. I do it. See my patch.

Note : this patch need dojo.within function proposed in http://trac.dojotoolkit.org/ticket/6284

Soon, I'll write small documentation about this new feature.

Regards, Stephane

[harobed]

Patch : Low level draggable droppable like scriptaculous

[bill]

I doubt that we want to add an alternate DnD mechanism into dojo core, or even dojox, but will leave to Eugene. Setting milestone to 1.2 so it doesn't show up in 1.1 queue.