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asked on 13 Jul 2013, 04:05 AM
I have a databound listbox that is bound to a class call Animal. On another form is several databound listboxes that are different types of animals. All listboxes use the Animal class. So what I want to do is when a user grabs an Animal class from the source listbox and drags it over to the form, depending on Animal.Type, only the listbox named the Animal.Type can accept the drop.
I thought maybe I could do this by using DragEnter. But I can't seem to get the business object out of the data object. I thought if I could, I could check it, and if it matched the Listbox name, I would enable drop. If not, I would disable drop on that listbox. I would do that to all of them.
Is this possible? I have been wrecking my brains and cannot figure out how to get the data out and what property to put it in. All the examples seem to talk about drag/drop strings. I have full blown bound objects.
So it is conditionally dropping depending on a property of the object being dragged.
I thought maybe I could do this by using DragEnter. But I can't seem to get the business object out of the data object. I thought if I could, I could check it, and if it matched the Listbox name, I would enable drop. If not, I would disable drop on that listbox. I would do that to all of them.
Is this possible? I have been wrecking my brains and cannot figure out how to get the data out and what property to put it in. All the examples seem to talk about drag/drop strings. I have full blown bound objects.
So it is conditionally dropping depending on a property of the object being dragged.
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answered on 05 Sep 2013, 09:37 PM
Anyone? How do I get the object(s) that are being dragged? Because I have to know a property of the object being dragged to set the drop behavior.
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Nik
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You can do that by using the DragDropPayloadManager(Both to set the data and extract it). You can then use the DragEffects to make the Drop impossible (Efects = None).
Hope this helps!
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answered on 07 Sep 2013, 11:57 PM
Ok, one other question. This works fine. But I have the condition that if the user holds down the CTRL key while they drag/drop, the logic I talked about overruled and they can drop it on anything. But I can't seem to capture the CTRL with drag/drop at the same time. How would you suggest I do that do the drag/drop events know the the CTRL key is held down?
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Nik
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You can handle the Keyboard key down events, and check if the key is Ctrl, to raise a boolean flag indicating the state of the button. You should subscribe tot he event with HandledEventsToo set to true, since something may be handling them in the process.
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