Unable to set drag and drop Effects to Copy

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Posted 8 years ago by Xinen Lee
Version: 16.1.0631
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Hi Actipro

I need to set the drag drop e.Effects to Copy depending on the format that is being dropped onto the editor, such that it displays the Copy cursor with a + sign when dragging over the editor. I'm trying to set e.Effects to Copy in PreviewDragOver, however the NotifyDragOver in DragDropManager will always overwrite my e.Effects as it uses the e.AllowedEffects to determine whether a Move is allowed. e.AllowedEffects is determined by the drag source and is readonly.

If I put e.Handled to true in PreviewDragOver, I get the copy effect I want but it doesn't go into DragDropManager.NotifyDragOver to display the drop caret in the right position.

For the actual Move/Copy behavior, I am able to set it to Copy in PasteDragDrop by setting e.DragEventArgs.Effects, however the cursor is still the Move cursor.

If a source allows both move and copy, the drag target should have control over whether to move or copy the element. 

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Posted 8 years ago by Actipro Software Support - Cleveland, OH, USA
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Hi Xinen,

Would you like to see another PasteDragDrop event fired with a new PasteDragDropAction.DragOver option so that you could set e.Effects there?  Perhaps we initialize it beforehand with our logic.


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Posted 8 years ago by Xinen Lee
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That would be fine, as long as it is fired after setting e.Effects in NotifyDragOver for both dropAllowed and !dropAllowed.

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Posted 8 years ago by Actipro Software Support - Cleveland, OH, USA
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Hi Xinen,

Why would you need it to fire when !dropAllowed?  In that scenario you already told us in NotifyDragEnter that you didn't want to allow a drop at all.


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Posted 8 years ago by Xinen Lee
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Hi, 

I don't really need !dropAllowed at this moment, just dropAllowed. I just thought it would be convenient to ask for both in case it is needed later.

Thanks!

Posted 8 years ago by Actipro Software Support - Cleveland, OH, USA
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Hi Xinen,

I don't think it would be needed if !dropAllowed, but we will update PasteDragDrop to fire on drag over as long as dropAllowed = true.  This update will be in the next maintenance release.


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The latest build of this product (v24.1.1) was released 2 months ago, which was after the last post in this thread.

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