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Simon Störmer asked on 23 Mar 2011, 10:45 AM

Hi,

I try to do a drag and drop operation on the map. I have a MapPolyline and a MapRectangle. I want to drop the rectangle onto the MapPolyline to add the coordinate of the dragged MapRectangle to the polyline.

I use the following markup:

<telerik:RadMap x:Name="radMap"

Center="40, -100"

ZoomLevel="7"

MouseClickMode="None"

>

<telerik:RadMap.Provider>

<telerik:OpenStreetMapProvider />

</telerik:RadMap.Provider>

<telerik:InformationLayer Name="LineLayer" >

<telerik:MapPolyline Stroke="Red" StrokeThickness="15" telerik:RadDragAndDropManager.AllowDrop="True" >

<telerik:MapPolyline.Points>

<telerik:LocationCollection>

<telerik:Location Latitude="40" Longitude="-100" />

<telerik:Location Latitude="41" Longitude="-100" />

<telerik:Location Latitude="41" Longitude="-101" />

</telerik:LocationCollection>

</telerik:MapPolyline.Points>

</telerik:MapPolyline>

</telerik:InformationLayer>

<telerik:InformationLayer Name="RectangleLayer" >

<telerik:MapRectangle Width="10" Height="10" Location="40, -101" Fill="Green" telerik:RadDragAndDropManager.AllowDrag="True" />

</telerik:InformationLayer>

</telerik:RadMap>

In code behind I wired up the DragInfo, DragQuery, DropInfo and DropQuery events at the user control level, but with the above markup the are never hit.

If I set the AllowDrag on the RectangleLayer and the AllowDrop on the RadMap, then the drag operation starts, but on drop I have the RectangleLayer as Source and the RadMap as destination. But I want to have the MapRectangle as Source and the Polyline as Destination.

EDIT: I figured out that drag an drop works fine on normal UIElements such as Ellipse or Rectangle. If I exchange my drag source MapRectangle with a Rectangle I can drag it. If I replace my MapPolyline with a Line I can drop the Rectangle to it. I can provide a sample if you tell me where to upload it. I tested this with Q1 2011.
While a Rectangle can replace the MapRectangle, the Line can not replace the MapPolyline, because it is not properly projected to geographical coordinats.

What am I doing wrong?

Greetings,

Tobias.

7 Answers, 1 is accepted

answered on 25 Mar 2011, 09:41 AM

DragElementToMapPolygon.zip

Hi Tobias Richling,

You can use the InformationLayer.GetItemsInLocation method to get the map polygon under the mouse pointer. I have attached a sample solution which uses this method.

Kind regards,
Andrey Murzov
the Telerik team

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answered on 28 Mar 2011, 02:16 PM

Telerik-Drag-Drop-Before-After.png

Hi Andrey,

thanks for your answer, it helped me a lot! First I had problems to get your sample running in our environment, but this was due to the fact that we still use Q3 2010, where the GetItemsInLocation does not return any items. But I could work around that.

Now another issue arised. It is a little hard to explain, but I have a sample for you where I can reproduce the issue.

This is what I have:
I have a TourViewModel, that has a list of StationViewModel objects. The StationViewModel contains a Location instance. To extract a LocationCollection from the list of StationViewModel objects, the TourViewModel has an additional property Coordinates of type LocationCollection that extracts the Locations from the StationViewModels. My MainPageViewModel contains a list of StationViewModels and a list of TourViewModels.
In Xaml I have two InformationLayers: one for the station list from the MainPageViewModel, the other one for the tours. Stations are visualized by a rectangle, tours by MapPolylines, much as in your sample, expect that items are databound now.

This is the Problem:
I add a Tour from (41; -106) -> (43; -108) heading north west. Then I drag the point (44; -107) which is located to the north east from the last station. In the drop operation I figure out the dropped Point (the source) and the TourViewModel (the destination) and add a new StationsViewModel based on the dragged Location to the TourViewModel. The polyline updates itself, but by doing that the whole line changes its Longitudes decreasing them by one - that means the line moves southwards in the map. The same applies to Points (44, -109) and (44, -108). Dragging (43; -109) or (42; -109) makes the polyline move to the west by incrementing the longitude by one. The Problem does not arise with all drops: (42, -108), (43, -107), (42, -106), (41, -105) work well.

I have attached a picture to illustrate the issue. Once again, I can provide an example solution that reproduces the issue.

I have attached a picture to illustrate the problem. The problem does not always happen. I am not sure wether I am doing something wrong or if this might be a bug.

Thanks for any help!

Kind regards,

Tobias.

answered on 05 Apr 2011, 08:52 AM

TelerikAttach.png

Hi Andrey,

as I previously posted: I can only attach images (gif, jpg, jpeg and png files) to my messages. I even can not change the extension of my .rar file to jpg and upload it. Your server rejects the file due to wrong format (which is quiet right in this case :-) ). I attached a picutre of my upload box.

Please tell me where or how I can upload my example, because the issue is still very important to me. Or must I submit a support ticket?

Thank you,

Tobias.