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, > > 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 here about how to do > that, but I haven't been able to find it. Has anyone done this? The effect > should be similar to what you get in iTunes when you drag song title to a > playlist. > > TIA, > > Devin > > Devin Asay > Humanities Technology and Research Support Center > Brigham Young University > > > _______________________________________________ > 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/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ 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/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
