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I think I see what's happening.<br>My frame has a transparent hole in it for the mov/controls.<br>But that trans part stays hot.<br><br>I wanted the user to be able to drag it by the mov as well as frame, so I guess I can chop the lower bit off the frame that is behind the controls and put in a separate display.<br><br><br><br><hr id="stopSpelling">From: Julian.Tenney@nottingham.ac.uk<br>To: xerte@lists.nottingham.ac.uk<br>Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2011 13:31:40 +0000<br>Subject: RE: [Xerte] Dragging multiple objects<br><br>
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</style><div class="ecxWordSection1"><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">That’s why you need a child that starts the drag, </span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"> </span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">PG</span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"> DIS //handle events on this below</span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"> MOV</span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"> INT</span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"> EVT – onPress forDIS above, PG.startDrag</span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"> --</span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"> MovieControls</span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"> --</span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"> </span></p><div><div style="border-right: medium none; border-width: 1pt medium medium; border-style: solid none none; border-color: rgb(181, 196, 223) -moz-use-text-color -moz-use-text-color; padding: 3pt 0cm 0cm;"><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36pt;"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';" lang="EN-US">From:</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';" lang="EN-US"> xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Dave Burnett<br><b>Sent:</b> 05 January 2011 12:35<br><b>To:</b> Xerte list<br><b>Subject:</b> RE: [Xerte] Dragging multiple objects</span></p></div></div><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36pt;"> </p><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';"><br>Hmm.<br><br>Have the multiple objects dragging, but the movie controller is hot as well.<br><br></span></p><div class="ecxMsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36pt; text-align: center;" align="center"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';"><hr id="ecxstopSpelling" align="center" width="100%" size="2"></span></div><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';">From: Julian.Tenney@nottingham.ac.uk<br>To: xerte@lists.nottingham.ac.uk<br>Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2011 22:27:39 +0000<br>Subject: RE: [Xerte] Dragging multiple objects</span></p><div><div><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; color: black;">of your own devising?</span></p></div><div><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; color: black;"> </span></p></div><div><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; color: black;">Make sure they all have the same parent, and drag that, I'd think about using a decision icon's page as the container for your player. Then users can drag that. You could have a title bar icon in the page that starts the drag: draw a rectangle into the page's first display icon, set up event handlers for it, and when you handle onPress / onRelease / onReleaseOutside, start / stop dragging the page itself via the page's ID. Magic.</span></p></div><div><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; color: black;"> </span></p></div><div id="ecxdivRpF204402"><div class="ecxMsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36pt; text-align: center;" align="center"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; color: black;"><hr align="center" width="100%" size="2"></span></div><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-left: 36pt;"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; color: black;">From:</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; color: black;"> xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk [xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Dave Burnett [d_b_burnett@hotmail.com]<br><b>Sent:</b> 04 January 2011 22:26<br><b>To:</b> Xerte list<br><b>Subject:</b> RE: [Xerte] Dragging multiple objects</span></p></div><div><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; color: black;">flv,frame,controller.</span></p><div class="ecxMsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36pt; text-align: center;" align="center"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; color: black;"><hr id="ecxstopSpelling" align="center" width="100%" size="2"></span></div><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; color: black;">From: Julian.Tenney@nottingham.ac.uk<br>To: xerte@lists.nottingham.ac.uk<br>Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2011 21:27:24 +0000<br>Subject: RE: [Xerte] Dragging multiple objects</span></p><div><div><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; color: black;">make sure you handle onRelease and onReleaseOutside: that will nail the not dropping problem.</span></p></div><div><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; color: black;"> </span></p></div><div><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; color: black;">For multiple objects, I guess loop over an array and startDrag on each item: you want to simultaneously drag several things?</span></p></div><div><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; color: black;"> </span></p></div><div id="ecxdivRpF876706"><div class="ecxMsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36pt; text-align: center;" align="center"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; color: black;"><hr align="center" width="100%" size="2"></span></div><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-left: 36pt;"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; color: black;">From:</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; color: black;"> xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk [xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Dave Burnett [d_b_burnett@hotmail.com]<br><b>Sent:</b> 04 January 2011 18:27<br><b>To:</b> Xerte list<br><b>Subject:</b> [Xerte] Dragging multiple objects</span></p></div><div><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; color: black;">Any best practices?<br><br>I have noticed before that if the user drags an object quickly then drops it, the "mouse up" sometimes gets missed and the object(s) will then continue to follow the cursor around.<br><br>Any way to avoid all the defensive programming?<br>:-/ <br><br></span></p></div></div><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; color: black;"><br>This message and any attachment are intended solely for the addressee and may contain confidential information. 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