Magic Trackpad: how to drag'n drop text?

I have a new Magic Trackpad but am having problems finding all the features my Magic Mouse has. How do I drag a selection of text? It seems reasonable that I should just hold down and drag the text, but nothing happens.

It was three months ago to the day that the update which caused all the problems with this input device was issued. Apple appear to be unwilling to acknowledge that such a problem even exists.

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Magic Trackpad, how to drag text?

Using Lion, I have set my system prefs to tap to click and dragging with drag lock in universal access.
Now, what i want to do is to be able to double tap on a text section or a word and drag it.
Sometimes i do it by mistake, but what is the way to do it?
Thanks in advance!

Hi rawsaxy, Sorry you are still having issues. Mouse-Clicks go like this:
2 = word
3 = paragraph
You can also click, hold and drag over the text to select just that portion of it.
To "grab the text" which will enable you to drag it, "click" onto your selected text and pause. Pausing is very important. Your computer is programmed to ignore false commands, so pausing tells it "you mean business."
You should be able to drag your selected text any where on your screen and "drop it."
Also, don't forget the work-around's. Such as "Cutting" and then "Pasting." Either from the drop-down menu or via key-commands. This dose the same thing but can be used when you cannot visually see where you want to "drop" your item (e.g., the window or application is hidden).
One other suggestion. Do you live near or can you get to a place that sell's Apples? Best Buy or even an Apple Store? Because, if you can, I'm sure there is someone there that could help coach you using your mouse or trackpad.
Good luck!

How to drag and drop text from one listbox to another

I have a listbox of options(text) and would like to drag and drop each selection into a new listbox, one at a time. Then programatically highlight the selections in the new listbox as events happen.

Hello Zoltan,
I do not believe that kind of option is built into the listboxes, but I was able to have similiar functionalities using property nodes. I have included an example program that I put together.
The big difference is that instead of dragging, you double click on the item you want to transfer. To highlight items as you go down the list, all you need to do is set the value to that list number.
Hope this helps you out!
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How do I create a text style in CC libraries? Every time I drag and drop text into library form Photoshop or illustrator it turns it into a graphic.

How do I create a text style in CC libraries? Every time I drag and drop text into library form Photoshop or illustrator it turns it into a graphic.
If I select the text layer and click the text style button in the library it just creates a new text style for Myriad Pro 12pt - I'm not using that anywhere in my document.
Can anyone help? Seems like a bug to me as I'm trying what the video tutorials are saying.
Thanks

I realize AI is an illustration program.
Do you realize it is an object-based vector-based program? Do you know the difference between raster-based and vector-based content?
My question seems to be all over the forum but no one has been able to answer other than exporting to these file formats, which make text look awful and of no use....
And yet everyone else in the world makes proper web images every day using a plethora of programs, including these...go figure.
Am I missing something?
Yep. Pretty much.
Hello Adobe! People use transparency on website logos.
Hello, cocteau! What you're calling "transparency" is inherent to object-based vector artwork. But web browsers don't support object-based vector artwork, except via file formats like Flash and SVG, or by viewing as a PDF in a plug-in version of Reader. Raster imaging in general only supports "transparency" by either indexing a specific color (i.e.; "don't display this color", as in GIF) or including an alpha channel (i.e.; "blend all the pixels with existing pixels, based on values from this extra channel", as in PNG). It's all in the raster file format you use, cocteau; it has little-to-nothing to do specifically with Adobe software. Such things are among the most basic matters understood by someone doing web design.
When I export an eps from .ai file, and open the eps in photoshop,...I save as a gif for the web, it goes back to the original problem...creates jagged text. I"m giving up on this garbage...Thanks a lot adobe! Lower the price of this software if this is all that can be done.
Once it leaves Photoshop (or Illustrator, or whatever) as a non-proprietary raster image format, it's all about what the format can do re "transparency". You can do this stuff with most any graphics program. You should read about basic web design and the differences between raster and vector content, rather than rant.
JET

How to drag and drop tab nodes between tab panes

I'm working on example from this tutorial( Drag-and-Drop Feature in JavaFX Applications | JavaFX 2 Tutorials and Documentation ). Based on the tutorial I want to drag tabs between two tabs. So far I managed to create this code but I need some help in order to finish the code.
Source
tabPane = new TabPane();
Tab tabA = new Tab();
   Label tabALabel = new Label("Main Component");
tabPane.setOnDragDetected(new EventHandler<MouseEvent>()
            @Override
            public void handle(MouseEvent event)
                /* drag was detected, start drag-and-drop gesture*/
                System.out.println("onDragDetected");
                /* allow any transfer mode */
                Dragboard db = tabPane.startDragAndDrop(TransferMode.ANY);
                /* put a string on dragboard */
                ClipboardContent content = new ClipboardContent();
                content.put(DataFormat.PLAIN_TEXT, tabPane);
                db.setContent(content);
                event.consume();
What is the proper way to insert the content of the tab as object? Into the tutorial simple text is transferred. How I must modify this line content.put(DataFormat.PLAIN_TEXT, tabPane);?
And what is the proper way to insert the tab after I drag the tab:
Destination
tabPane.setOnDragDropped(new EventHandler<DragEvent>()
            @Override
            public void handle(DragEvent event)
                /* data dropped */
                /* if there is a string data on dragboard, read it and use it */
                Dragboard db = event.getDragboard();
                boolean success = false;
                if (db.hasString())
                    //tabPane.setText(db.getString());
                    Tab tabC = new Tab();
                    tabPane.getTabs().add(tabC);
                    success = true;
                /* let the source know whether the string was successfully
                 * transferred and used */
                event.setDropCompleted(success);
                event.consume();
I suppose that this transfer can be accomplished?
Ref javafx 2 - How to drag and drop tab nodes between tab panes - Stack Overflow

I would use a graphic (instead of text) for the Tabs and call setOnDragDetected on that graphic. That way you know which tab is being dragged. There's no nice way to put the Tab itself into the dragboard as it's not serializable (see https://javafx-jira.kenai.com/browse/RT-29082), so you probably just want to store the tab currently being dragged in a property.
Here's a quick example; it just adds the tab to the end of the current tabs in the dropped pane. If you wanted to insert it into the nearest location to the actual drop you could probably iterate through the tabs and figure the coordinates of each tab's graphic, or something.
import java.util.Random;
import javafx.application.Application;
import javafx.beans.property.ObjectProperty;
import javafx.beans.property.SimpleObjectProperty;
import javafx.event.EventHandler;
import javafx.scene.Scene;
import javafx.scene.control.Label;
import javafx.scene.control.Tab;
import javafx.scene.control.TabPane;
import javafx.scene.input.ClipboardContent;
import javafx.scene.input.DragEvent;
import javafx.scene.input.Dragboard;
import javafx.scene.input.MouseEvent;
import javafx.scene.input.TransferMode;
import javafx.scene.layout.StackPane;
import javafx.scene.layout.VBox;
import javafx.stage.Stage;
public class DraggingTabPane extends Application {
private static final String TAB_DRAG_KEY = "tab" ;
private ObjectProperty<Tab> draggingTab ;
@Override
public void start(Stage primaryStage) {
draggingTab = new SimpleObjectProperty<>();
TabPane tabPane1 = createTabPane();
TabPane tabPane2 = createTabPane();
VBox root = new VBox(10);
root.getChildren().addAll(tabPane1, tabPane2);
final Random rng = new Random();
for (int i=1; i<=8; i++) {
    final Tab tab = createTab("Tab "+i);
    final StackPane pane = new StackPane();
      int red = rng.nextInt(256);
      int green = rng.nextInt(256);
      int blue = rng.nextInt(256);
    String style = String.format("-fx-background-color: rgb(%d, %d, %d);", red, green, blue);
    pane.setStyle(style);
    final Label label = new Label("This is tab "+i);
    label.setStyle(String.format("-fx-text-fill: rgb(%d, %d, %d);", 256-red, 256-green, 256-blue));
    pane.getChildren().add(label);
    pane.setMinWidth(600);
    pane.setMinHeight(250);
    tab.setContent(pane);
    if (i<=4) {
      tabPane1.getTabs().add(tab);
    } else {
      tabPane2.getTabs().add(tab);
primaryStage.setScene(new Scene(root, 600, 600));
primaryStage.show();
public static void main(String[] args) {
launch(args);
private TabPane createTabPane() {
    final TabPane tabPane = new TabPane();
    tabPane.setOnDragOver(new EventHandler<DragEvent>() {
      @Override
      public void handle(DragEvent event) {
        final Dragboard dragboard = event.getDragboard();
        if (dragboard.hasString()
            && TAB_DRAG_KEY.equals(dragboard.getString())
            && draggingTab.get() != null
            && draggingTab.get().getTabPane() != tabPane) {
          event.acceptTransferModes(TransferMode.MOVE);
          event.consume();
    tabPane.setOnDragDropped(new EventHandler<DragEvent>() {
      @Override
      public void handle(DragEvent event) {
        final Dragboard dragboard = event.getDragboard();
        if (dragboard.hasString()
            && TAB_DRAG_KEY.equals(dragboard.getString())
            && draggingTab.get() != null
            && draggingTab.get().getTabPane() != tabPane) {
          final Tab tab = draggingTab.get();
          tab.getTabPane().getTabs().remove(tab);
          tabPane.getTabs().add(tab);
          event.setDropCompleted(true);
          draggingTab.set(null);
          event.consume();
    return tabPane ;
private Tab createTab(String text) {
    final Tab tab = new Tab();
    final Label label = new Label(text);
    tab.setGraphic(label);
    label.setOnDragDetected(new EventHandler<MouseEvent>() {
      @Override
      public void handle(MouseEvent event) {
        Dragboard dragboard = label.startDragAndDrop(TransferMode.MOVE);
        ClipboardContent clipboardContent = new ClipboardContent();
        clipboardContent.putString(TAB_DRAG_KEY);
        dragboard.setContent(clipboardContent);
        draggingTab.set(tab);
        event.consume();
    return tab ;

Drag and Drop Text in FrameMaker 10

I just installed TCS 3 with Frame 10. Prior to this release I could triple-click a paragraph and select the following (or previous) paragraphs by dragging the mouse. Now in Frame 10 after I triple-click, Frame thinks that I want to drag and drop text rather than simply selecting text. It only selects the one word on which the mouse cursor rests and insists on prompting me to drag the text somewhere. If I triple-click and release the mouse button, then the whole para is selected, but I cannot select any more text because I have already released the mouse.
How do I turn off the drag and drop text feature? I'm finding this "enhancement" frustrating at best.

AFAIK, the drag'n drop facility is hardwired into the code, so you can't change the behaviour. However, if you've made a paragraph selection using a triple-click, you can select additiona paragraphs by holding down the shift key and single-clicking at the point that you wish your selection to extend to.

Drag and Drop | Text | Submit | PLEASE HELP

Hi. I really need help. THANK YOU in advance.
I am building a voting contact from in flash profession with AS3. The functionality will allow users to drag and drop choices OR add their own allow them to submit their TOP 5 choices.
PROBLEM:
1. Drag and drop text is not submitted when it is dragged into the editable text field.
HOW CAN I DO THIS TO ALLOW FOR DRAG AND DROPPED ITEMS TO BE SUBMITTED or TEXT THAT IS MANUALLY ENTERED.
This can be seen HERE: http://pttdt.com/winnipegcafes.php
AS3 Code used thus far:
/* Drag and Drop
Makes the specified symbol instance moveable with drag and drop.
choice_1.buttonMode = true;
choice_1.mouseChildren = false;
choice_1.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_DOWN, fl_ClickToDrag);
function fl_ClickToDrag(event:MouseEvent):void
            choice_1.startDrag();
stage.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_UP, fl_ReleaseToDrop);
function fl_ReleaseToDrop(event:MouseEvent):void
            choice_1.stopDrag();
/* Drag and Drop
Makes the specified symbol instance moveable with drag and drop.
choice_2.buttonMode = true;
choice_2.mouseChildren = false;
choice_2.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_DOWN, fl_ClickToDrag_2);
function fl_ClickToDrag_2(event:MouseEvent):void
            choice_2.startDrag();
stage.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_UP, fl_ReleaseToDrop_2);
function fl_ReleaseToDrop_2(event:MouseEvent):void
            choice_2.stopDrag();
/* Drag and Drop
Makes the specified symbol instance moveable with drag and drop.
choice_3.buttonMode = true;
choice_3.mouseChildren = false;
choice_3.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_DOWN, fl_ClickToDrag_3);
function fl_ClickToDrag_3(event:MouseEvent):void
            choice_3.startDrag();
stage.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_UP, fl_ReleaseToDrop_3);
function fl_ReleaseToDrop_3(event:MouseEvent):void
            choice_3.stopDrag();
/* Drag and Drop
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choice_4.buttonMode = true;
choice_4.mouseChildren = false;
choice_4.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_DOWN, fl_ClickToDrag_4);
function fl_ClickToDrag_4(event:MouseEvent):void
            choice_4.startDrag();
stage.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_UP, fl_ReleaseToDrop_4);
function fl_ReleaseToDrop_4(event:MouseEvent):void
            choice_4.stopDrag();
/* Drag and Drop
Makes the specified symbol instance moveable with drag and drop.
choice_5.buttonMode = true;
choice_5.mouseChildren = false;
choice_5.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_DOWN, fl_ClickToDrag_5);
function fl_ClickToDrag_5(event:MouseEvent):void
            choice_5.startDrag();
stage.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_UP, fl_ReleaseToDrop_5);
function fl_ReleaseToDrop_5(event:MouseEvent):void
            choice_5.stopDrag();
/* Mouse Click Event
Clicking on the specified symbol instance executes a function in which you can add your own custom code.
Instructions:
1. Add your custom code on a new line after the line that says "// Start your custom code" below.
The code will execute when the symbol instance is clicked.
send_btn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, fl_MouseClickHandler);
function fl_MouseClickHandler(event:MouseEvent):void
            // Start your custom code
            // This example code displays the words "Mouse clicked" in the Output panel.
            trace(box_1.text);
            trace(box_2.text);
            trace(box_3.text);
            trace(box_4.text);
            trace(box_5.text);
            trace(theName.text);
            trace(theEmail.text);
            // End your custom code
PLEASE HELP

It can be fairly involved once you realize how many aspects need to be dealt with. You'll need to find a tutorial that teaches you how to use drag and drop involving targets so that when you drop something you check if it hit a valid target (textfield in your case) and then process your text into that target. You should try searching Google using terms like "AS3 drag drop tutorial" and "AS3 dropTarget tutorial"   Here's a link from the latter of the two that has links to tutorials that might help.
http://forums.adobe.com/post!reply.jspa?message=3462293

How to drag and drop between portlets?

Howdy!
Could someone please be kind enough to show me how to drag and drop data between portlets. I want to select an icon, drag it to an application and launch the file associated with the icon in the application.
I can do it within a portlet with some js functions but when I try it between portlets (on the same page)I see the forbiden sign.
Thanks
Jeff Graber

Hi
thanks for the advice. However, that is what I had done. Here is the code in the jsp file for the destination portlet and it does not work. If you have any ideas, thanks!
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<%@ taglib uri="netui-tags-databinding.tld" prefix="netui-data"%>
<%@ taglib uri="netui-tags-html.tld" prefix="netui"%>
<%@ taglib uri="netui-tags-template.tld" prefix="netui-template"%>
<netui:html>
<head>
<title>
MS Word Portlet
</title>
          <script language="JavaScript" src="../js/common.js"></script>
          <script language="JavaScript" src="../js/containers.js"></script>
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Application Village Portlet
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| <a id="MS Excel" ondrop="sendInfo     (this.id);" ondragover="fnCancelDefault()"><img src="/Jime/images/EXCELY.gif" alt="Drag one or more documents here to open with MS Excel" border="0"></img></a>
| <a id="MS PowerPoint" ondrop="sendInfo(this.id);" ondragover="fnCancelDefault()"><img src="/Jime/images/PowerPointY.gif" alt="Drag one or more documents here to open with MS PowerPoint" border="0"></img></a>
| <a id="Trash" ondrop="sendInfo(this.id);" ondragover="fnCancelDefault()"><img src="/Jime/images/trashcan.gif" alt="Drag one or more documents here to delete" border="0"></img></a>
</body>
</netui:html>

Upgraded to Adabe 10.1x reader and drag and drop text problems

I cannot drag and drop text from my saved PDF files to word files or for example, into online forms since upgrading to Adobe new reader version today. How can this problem be resolved?

So after a month of trying to figure all this out I FINALLY fixed the problem!
Before you do anything just go to your destop > right click personalize (this is for windows 7 - might be different for XP; I honestly forgot, but same idea) > find "window color" > select "advance appearance settings
(I think can be found by just typing "window color and appearance" in the search from the start menu).
Finally select "active title bar" (If the font is SEGOE UI, then following the link is the best thing to do; IF ITS NOT, I would think you can just follow the same steps and modify accordingly to how you want your fonts to look in iTunes). http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_7-desktop/how-to-change -system-default-font-in-all-parts/dfce15db-7337-420a-a42e-517521a8502e
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I am using jdev 11.1.1.4.0
I need the component as <af:inputNumberSpinbox> . Create a data model and how to drag and drop as inputNumberSpinbox in the data control.
normally drog and drop the particular attribute as inputText box only. I want <af:inputNumberSpinbox>.
anythig want to change in the view object control hints itself. help me.
Regards,
ragupathi S.
Edited by: Ragu on Jun 22, 2011 4:45 PM

Hi,
Can't you drop it as an inputText and then change it in the source to inputNumberSpinbox?
Regards,
Stijn.

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I am building a flash website for a friend. We are using templates he purchased at flashden.net.
I normally use wordpress, joomla and other such systems and am familiar with html, php, cgi and such.
This is my first time dealing with a flash template.
I have downloaded the trial version of the software and he wants to purchase adobe flash professional for me
So that we can edit the template and add features he wants in the future.
The website that sells the templates says you can easily drag and drop addons to templates in flash
but I am not finding it so easy. Is there somewhere online where I can find a tutuorial on how to step by step
drag and drop flash files into another template etc.?
Also, where can I find good tutorials in general? I have downloaded adobe flash for dummies it is not as indepth as I need
to get a handle on this software.
Thank you to anyone that offers me any advice,
David Doherty

Ned,
Thank you for responding.
Flashden.net does claim its a simple drag and drop operation to do this but they have little to know information on the site about the subject and
having difficulty with the sellers on step by step instructions. They claim it's easy it may be.
The person I am building the website for had a bad experience with one of the sellers who refused to offer anything but basic instructions and claimed the cost of the software was not worth his time.
Here are the instructions that were provided:
Open news_rotator.fla
Go to library.
Select and copy NewsRotator movie clip.
Paste it into your own project’s library.
Now, you can drag and drop it into your own movie clips.
Use news.xml to add/remove headlines.
As you can see from what your telling me this is insufficent information on how to drag and drop this flash into another flash template.
I will attempt to contact other selers at flashden for information as I have other flash templates we have purchased.
Thank you,
David Doherty

Drag and drop text to Pages doc without formatting

Pages '06 allowed me to 'drag and drop' text from another application into a cell in a Pages table, without disturbing cell formatting. i.e. the text would lose all its own styles, and take on those set for the cell. This is just the same as using the Edit item 'Paste and Match Style', but avoids several intermediate steps. This doesn't work in Pages '08, so my question is:
Is there a modifier key or some other way of setting Pages '08 to work the old way?
I would also like to do the same thing into main body text, but even Pages '06 wouldn't do that -- not for me, anyway. Any suggestions would be gratefully received.

What you can do is right-click on your selected text, choose "Copy" from the contextual menu, then go to the app where you want to paste the text and right-click again, choosing "Paste and Match Style" from that contextual menu.......no keyboarding involved, no modifier keys.

How to drag and drop a object in an indicator at run time?

How to drag and drop a picture at run time in a indicator displaying pictures on the front panel. The main thing is that the window is displaying frames continuously?

Hi Vivman,
You have duplicated this post here. Please do not post the same question to separate forum post.
Cheers.
| Michael K | Project Manager | LabVIEW R&D | National Instruments |

How to drag and drop a picture at run time in a window displaying pictures?

How to drag and drop a picture at run time in a window displaying pictures on the front panel. The main thing is that the window is displaying frames continuously?

vivman,
So from your description you have a picture control where you've already created an image and you'd like to drag an image around inside of the picture control. This can be done although it is going to take a significant amount of research and programming on your behalf. You can use the drag event in the event handler to find out when the drag occurs and where the cursor is. Then edit the picture as you move your mouse so that when you drop the picture gets updated.
The even structure is a somewhat advanced topic and the drag and drop feature is one of the more advanced uses of this structure. I would search the example finder (help>>find examples) for "event" and "drag" to see how to use these events. Also you'll want to look at the examples for the picture control.
Sounds like a cool project! Check out Darren's Weekly Nugget 10/30/2006 this topic (http://forums.ni.com/ni/board/message?board.id=170&message.id=212920). It might prove useful.
Good luck!
Chris C
Chris Cilino
National Instruments
LabVIEW Product Marketing Manager
Certified LabVIEW Architect

How to drag and drop user from one node to other node.

Dear All,
How to drag and drop user from one node to other node.I tried but no success.
What are precautions to be taken.
Cay anybody kindly explain it.
Thank you.

Hello, if you had this message you had created BP....
Now you don't have to user USERS_GEN this transaction is used only in first action, when you create the user in R/3 and then you pass this user to EBP in the organizational structure.
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2) Double click on organizational unit that you want to put this user (purchasing organization or purchasing group box for example)
3) Select assign button in the top of the functions in the transaction
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5) Put userID that you want to add in this organizational unit
6) Click Save
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