Re: Text as dragImage

2011-03-15 Thread Devin Asay
On Mar 15, 2011, at 4:34 PM, Monte Goulding wrote: >> I thought that was precisely what setting the dragAction did! > > You can't set the dragAction to 12837 like you can with a cursor. There's > also more to dragAction than just a cursor. You might want a dragAction of > copy but a custom cu

Re: Text as dragImage

2011-03-15 Thread Monte Goulding
> I thought that was precisely what setting the dragAction did! You can't set the dragAction to 12837 like you can with a cursor. There's also more to dragAction than just a cursor. You might want a dragAction of copy but a custom cursor or no cursor at all if you are using a dragImage and some

Re: Text as dragImage

2011-03-15 Thread Bob Sneidar
I thought that was precisely what setting the dragAction did! Bob On Mar 15, 2011, at 2:35 PM, Monte Goulding wrote: This works, but is there any way to prevent the standard "+" symbol icon from appearing during a drag drop operation? >>> >>> Hmm... have you tried locking the curso

Re: Text as dragImage

2011-03-15 Thread Monte Goulding
>>> This works, but is there any way to prevent the standard "+" symbol icon >>> from appearing during a drag drop operation? >> >> Hmm... have you tried locking the cursor and setting the cursor to none? > > Nope, no go. The drag cursor seems to be outside of the regular cursor > paradigm. Ye

Re: Text as dragImage

2011-03-15 Thread Devin Asay
On Mar 15, 2011, at 10:00 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: > Devin Asay wrote: > >> ...is there any way to prevent the standard "+" symbol icon >> from appearing during a drag drop operation? > > I believe the cursor type is determined by the dragAction. If you're > not doing a copy action maybe "mo

Re: Text as dragImage

2011-03-15 Thread Richard Gaskin
Devin Asay wrote: > ...is there any way to prevent the standard "+" symbol icon > from appearing during a drag drop operation? I believe the cursor type is determined by the dragAction. If you're not doing a copy action maybe "move" will do what you want? -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Li

Re: Text as dragImage

2011-03-15 Thread Devin Asay
On Mar 14, 2011, at 8:54 PM, Monte Goulding wrote: >> This works, but is there any way to prevent the standard "+" symbol icon >> from appearing during a drag drop operation? > > Hmm... have you tried locking the cursor and setting the cursor to none? Nope, no go. The drag cursor seems to be o

Re: Text as dragImage

2011-03-15 Thread Richard Gaskin
Devin Asay wrote: > I had mistakenly assumed that if a field was hidden a snapshot of > the field would not show that field, but what was behind it. The > dictionary entry for import snapshot is not as clear as is could > be, but with a little trial and error I came up with this: > > on dragStart

Re: Text as dragImage

2011-03-14 Thread Monte Goulding
> This works, but is there any way to prevent the standard "+" symbol icon from > appearing during a drag drop operation? Hmm... have you tried locking the cursor and setting the cursor to none? Cheers Monte ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecod

Re: Text as dragImage

2011-03-14 Thread Devin Asay
Thanks, Monte, Marty and Colin for your suggestions. I had mistakenly assumed that if a field was hidden a snapshot of the field would not show that field, but what was behind it. The dictionary entry for import snapshot is not as clear as is could be, but with a little trial and error I came u

Re: Text as dragImage

2011-03-14 Thread Colin Holgate
Can you get close by having a 50% blend level opaque borderless button? ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailm

Re: Text as dragImage

2011-03-14 Thread Marty Knapp
Hey Devin, You might check out Scott Rossi's "Get In Line" stack at tactilemedia.com Marty Knapp Hi all, I'm creating a utility in which I want the user to be able to drag text from one field to another. I've worked out the details of dragging and dropping the text, but I also want to have

Re: Text as dragImage

2011-03-14 Thread Monte Goulding
Hi Devin Put your text into an invisible field with it's opaque and showborder false, set the size of it according to the formattedWidth/height to suit. Then import snapshot from control and use that image as the dragImage. Cheers Monte On 15/03/2011, at 12:02 PM, Devin Asay wrote: > Hi all

Text as dragImage

2011-03-14 Thread Devin Asay
Hi all, I'm creating a utility in which I want the user to be able to drag text from one field to another. I've worked out the details of dragging and dropping the text, but I also want to have the dragImage be a translucent copy of the text being dragged. I thought I remembered a discussion he