#2843 closed feature (notabug)

Opened May 12, 2008 09:15AM UTC

Closed October 19, 2012 05:54PM UTC

Selectables AND draggables?

Reported by: energia Owned by: rdworth
Priority: major Milestone: 2.0.0
Component: ui.selectable Version: 1.5b4
Keywords: ui draggable selectable Cc:
Blocked by: Blocking:
Description

Actually I didn't manage to find a way to make an element both selectable and draggable (even "droppable" maybe?). Interface could make such things, there was a demo at interface.eyecon.ro but it's not available anymore.

I think selectables are almost useless if we can't drag/drop them, in order to reproduce the daily ''desktop experience'' we are accostumed to.

Many people on the jquery discussion group asked for it, so I posted a ticket here. Is it a bug or a feature request? :) Thanks in advance,

Dario

Attachments (1)
  • ticket_2843.txt (2.9 KB) - added by talmdal September 16, 2009 04:17AM UTC.
Change History (9)

Changed May 24, 2008 03:39AM UTC by comment:1

milestone: 1.2.4

Milestone 1.2.4 deleted

Changed May 24, 2008 07:15PM UTC by paul comment:2

component: ui.core → ui.selectable
version: 1.2.3 → 1.5b4

Changed May 24, 2008 09:58PM UTC by paul comment:3

owner: paul → rdworth
status: new → assigned

Changed August 17, 2008 10:10AM UTC by Cloudream comment:4

milestone: → TDB

Changed March 23, 2009 04:03PM UTC by ajacksified comment:5

One way to get around this is assigning a handle to the draggable; otherwise, you'd have to be able to start dragging from a parent element (like the folder whitespace area in desktop OSes).

Changed March 26, 2009 02:15AM UTC by ajacksified comment:6

Replying to [comment:5 ajacksified]:

One way to get around this is assigning a handle to the draggable; otherwise, you'd have to be able to start dragging from a parent element (like the folder whitespace area in desktop OSes).

Cancel that: the parent *does* let you make a selection. If you make a ul selectable, you can drag in the whitespace background of the ul as well as from within any margin you have between list items; you can also set the list items to selectable; you have the same experience as in any file browser like Windows Explorer. I've successfully implemented this model and it works in IE6+, FF2+, Chrome 1 and 2 beta, and Opera 9 without problems. Check it out: http://labs.crimsondeviations.com/dstest.html

Now.. being able to move multiple things at once that have been selected- that's what I'd like to see. As soon as I implemented this in our project, 10 out of 10 people I showed it to asked if we could resequence (using sortable, not draggable, in my case) the 25 items they've selected. I said, "yeah, someday".

Changed September 16, 2009 04:18AM UTC by talmdal comment:7

Realizing the dev branch has this already implemented, the attachment is how I implemented it in 1.7.2

Changed October 11, 2012 09:07PM UTC by scottgonzalez comment:8

milestone: TBD → 2.0.0

Changed October 19, 2012 05:54PM UTC by mikesherov comment:9

resolution: → notabug
status: assigned → closed

As noted 3 years ago, the feature was already implemented elsewhere.