Can this be achieved in Flash rather than Flex

Question

Hi
I found something that's similar to some functionality I need:
http://blog.flexexamples.com/2007/09/19/dragging-rows-between-two-different-flex-datagrid- controls/
I was wondering if this is possible in As3 using Flash CS5?
Thanks
Shaun

Answer 1

well, you'd make one movieclip that contains dynamic textfields so you can add the dragged rows data to the textfields' text properties.
and i don't know of any tutorials for this.  using google is the best way i've found to find tutorials.  but this is such a narrow task i doubt you'll be successful finding a tutorial.
on the other hand, this is pretty easy if you break it up into a few steps:
1.  create a movieclip (with a linkage id (as2) or class (as3) that contains as many dynamic textfields as columns in your dragged datagrid.  and now that i'm typing this, i can see that this step could be supplanted by dynamically creating a movieclip and adding textfields to it.  that way if you had several datagrids with varying number of columns you wouldn't be restricted or stuck making several movieclips,
2. retrieve the data from the clicked row of the datagrid.
3. apply the data to the text property of your textfields.
4.  drag this movieclip until a mouseup is detected.
5.  on mouseup drop the movieclip.  if it's over a drop-enabled datagrid, add the data to this datagrid and possibly remove the data from the drag-enabled datagrid and remove the movieclip.