Depth in Drag and Drop

Hi!
I was wondering if there are any ways to put an object in
front or behind another based on its position in relation to the
other one, to create the illusion that there is depth. This would
be used in a file to create a 'room', where the x and y positions
of the objects would be saved in a database. That bit I can do. I
just need to know how to create the illusion of depth within the
'room'.
I'd like this in isometric view, please.
Thanks in advance.
~Zac

i can't answer that specifically because i don't know the
rationale you should use to set depths.
but, in general, you can store all the depths in an array
(using getDepth() and iterating all your display objects), sort()
that array and create another array of your objects.
then use a custom sort on your object array using the
criteria that suits your project and finally iterate through your
object array assigning depths (using swapDepths() ) from the sorted
depth array.

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G

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it.
Just working on duplicating characters at the moment and so
far have managed to duplicate once but then can only move duplicate
character and original disappears.
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suggestions very very welcome.
on (press) {
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Hello,
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The drop handler fails in converting the selected rows to a list:
com.sun.el.MethodExpressionImpl@87d9c00d javax.el.ELException: java.lang.ClassCastException: java.lang.String cannot be cast to java.util.List
Could you help me to understand why? Below are the details.
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I'm surprised that there isn't an Active X control that can do this more
easily? Would
be curious to find out if there is - although we aren't really embracing the
use of
them within Forte because it locks you into the Microsoft arena.
---------------------- Forwarded by Peggy Lynn Adrian/AM/LLY on 02/03/98 01:33
PM ---------------------------
"Stokesbary, Michael" <[email protected]> on 02/03/98 12:19:52 PM
Please respond to "Stokesbary, Michael" <[email protected]>
To: "'[email protected]'" <[email protected]>
cc:
Subject: Problems with ListViews Drag and Drop
I am just curious as to other people's experiences with the ListView
widget when elements in it are set to be draggable. In particular, I am
currently trying to design an interface that looks a lot like Windows
Explorer where a TreeView resides on the left side of the window and a
ListView resides on the right side. Upon double clicking on the
ListView, if the current node that was clicked on was a folder, then the
TreeView expands this folder and the contents are then displayed in the
ListView, otherwise, it was a file and it is brought up in Microsoft
Word. All this works great if I don't have the elements in the ListView
widget set to be draggable. If they are set to be draggable, then I am
finding that the DoubleClick event seems to get registered twice along
with the ObjectDrop event. This is not good because if I double click
and the current node is a folder, then it will expand this folder in the
TreeView, display the contents in the ListView, grab the node that is
now displayed where that node used to be displayed and run the events
for that as well. What this means, is that if this is a file, then Word
is just launched and no big deal. Unfortunately, if this happens to be
another directory, then the previous directory is dropped into this
current directory and a recursive copy gets performed, giving me one
heck of a deep directory tree for that folder.
Has anybody else seen this, or am I the only lucky one to experience.
If need be, I do have this exported in a .pex file if anybody needs to
look at it more closely.
Thanks in advance.
Michael Stokesbary
Software Engineer
GTE Government Systems Corporation
tel: (650) 966-2975
e-mail: [email protected]

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ADDENDUM AFTER READING ANOTHER DISCUSSION HERE: I have now tried right clicking the song in Windows Explorer and choosing Open With, clicking itunes. The mp3 plays in itunes but does not add to the library.

I don't have a Recently Added playlist. However, I discovered that the file I had named Eating Healthy was given the name You Can Enjoy Eating Healthy when it copied to iTunes. I'm guessing iTunes pulled the full name of the piece from the internet. Upshot--the mp3 did transfer to iTunes on all 3 tries, but I was looking in my alphabetized list under E, not Y, so I didn't see it there. Thanks for your help.

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