Drag/Drop mouse position

[Chase Florell]

Is there a way to change the behavior of the drag and drop feature so that when you grab a row, the mouse does not align to the upper left hand corner of the drag piece?

I would MUCH prefer it if the mouse stayed in the location it was originally clicked so that the drag experience is much cleaner.

Thanks in advance.

[Rosen]

Hello Chase,

I'm afraid that currently such behavior is not supported due to the fact that the current implementation of drag-drop functionality depends on mouse pointer position, which should over the drop target element. However in the scenario in question mouse pointer always will be over the dragged row.

Best wishes,
Rosen
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[Gary]

Can someone please tell me if this behavior has changed in the newest version?  This is the only post I've found on this subject.

[Konstantin Dikov]

Hello Gary,

You could have a look at our online demo "Grid - Items Drag-and-drop" for the current behavior of the dragging functionality.

As you will notice, the top-left corner of the dragged item is rendered according to the current position of the mouse cursor when drag starts. Please have in mind that in order for the drag-and-drop functionality to work, the dragged element should not be under the mouse cursor and that is the main reason for the position of the dragged item.


Regards,
Konstantin Dikov
Telerik

[Gary]

Hi Konstantin
When I try the D&D from that link to your sample, Either on ie 9 or Chrome, I don't see it.  If I place my mouse near the date and start dragging, the top left corner snaps to the mouse position.  I'd rather have it move the same, like dragging while the mouse is still on the date.
Not dragging the cell, but the row.

Gary

[Konstantin Dikov]

Hi Gary,

Currently there is known issue with the latest Chrome version, but with IE 9 everything is working as expected on my end.

As for the cell dragging, please note that RadGrid does not have cell dragging functionality, but only row dragging. Also, as I have explained in my previous post, it is not possible to have the dragged div place under the mouse cursor, because this will break the drag and drop functionality.

Best Regards,
Konstantin Dikov
Telerik

[Gary]

Hi Konstantin

I wasn't trying to drag a cell, I was dragging the entire row, but I wanted to grab it by the right side and not have it snap to the upper left edge.
I wish I could send you a picture.

Thanks.

Gary

[Konstantin Dikov]

Hi Gary,

As was mentioned several times in this thread, the dragged row must be placed away from the mouse cursor in order for the Drag & Drop functionality to work. If the dragged row is bellow the mouse cursor, when the row is dropped, the dragged row element will be the target of the drop event, which is not acceptable behavior.


Regards,
Konstantin Dikov
Telerik