Creating, Cloning, or Writing a Class for dragdata

[Minty23185Fresh]

I have a functioning “on demand” pseudo-dragdata object. It uses the genericcontrol as a wrapper. All functionality published in the XML and Scripting Reference document is supported except createBaseData() and one other function. A type(pseudo) will result in “windowcontrol” instead of “dragdata”.
I have a little bit more testing to do and some documentation to think about. I hope to publish in a day or two.

[Minty23185Fresh]

Posted https://www.fantasygrounds.com/forum...ragdata-Object

[celestian]

I'm curious the use case from your code (the link to the other post). I didn't want to clutter it up there.

It looks like you're coding the drag/drop off a double click? I've recently been tinkering with a custom drag/drop for the "quicknote" system I use for NPCs in AD&D Core. I wanted to be able to drag/drop the quicknotes between the "Ability Notes" and "Weapon" notes. I found a lot of times special weapon/attacks needed an entry and instead of reformatting everything for both, drag/drop was easier.


It ended up like this:

<buttoncontrol>
<script>
...

        function onDrop(x, y, draginfo)
          if draginfo.isType("shortcut") then
            local node = window.getDatabaseNode();
            local sClass, sRecord = draginfo.getShortcutData();
            if (sClass == "quicknote") then
              local nodeEncounter = DB.findNode(sRecord);
              if (nodeEncounter) then
                local sName = DB.getValue(nodeEncounter,"name","");
                local sText = DB.getValue(nodeEncounter,"text","");
                local nLocked = DB.getValue(nodeEncounter,"locked",0);
                DB.setValue(node,"itemnote.name","string",sName);
                DB.setValue(node,"itemnote.text","formattedtext",sText);
                DB.setValue(node,"itemnote.locked","number",nLocked);
              end
            end
            return true;
          end
        end

       function onDragStart(button, x, y, draginfo)
         local node = window.getDatabaseNode();
         local sName = DB.getValue(node,"name","");
         local sPathToItem = node.getPath() .. ".itemnote";
         draginfo.setType("shortcut");
         draginfo.setShortcutData( "quicknote", sPathToItem );
         draginfo.setDescription(sName);
         draginfo.setIcon("button_link_down");
         return true;
       end

...
<script>
</buttoncontrol>

This might be completely out of your use case but...