CHRISTOPHJPETERChristoph Peter

Usually a scriptaculous draggable will only start the drag if you click on it. As I was adding drag and drop functionality to a web based filebrowser I actually wanted to start the drag of an other object when the user clicked on a file and dragged it. So the user clicks on a file from a list view but does drag the actual dom element from the list view. the click on the file calls a function that slips a file icon under the mouse of the user and starts the drag of that file icon. That way a user can drag and drop just the icon which looks much nicer and gave me the ability to drag and drop all selected files from the list view. its actually pretty simple, you just pass on the click event to the initDrag method of your draggable.

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$('yourObjectThatWillBeClicked').observe('mousedown', function(event){
 //observe the object for clicks
 $('yourActualDraggable').setStyle({
 // slipping the draggable under the users mouse
 position:'absolute',
 top:Event.pointerY(event)-16+'px',
 // this gets us the position of the users cursor
 left:Event.pointerX(event)-24+'px'
 })
 Drager=new Draggable('yourActualDraggable',onEnd:function(){Drag.destroy()});
 // making it a real scriptaculous draggable
 Drager.initDrag(event)
 // passing on the event and starting the drag
 }
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screenshot that illustrates this technique in my application

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I just finished the makeover of the web appearance of  the clothing company odem. Since their distribution is working via ebay, I am creating a flash app that is reading the ebay rss feed of their store and displays their catalog of products in their corporate layout. That way the catalog is automatically kept up to date.www.odem.eu  this is a screenshot of the old site.

A second issue I noticed is that if you change the folder windows folder permissions of the folders that are shared by ftp, the ftp does not work properly anymore. By changing the folder permissions I mean that you share the folder in a local network for example.
Solution:

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This is another simple website I did for a tech company. Basic html site, with a small flash slideshow.

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Solution:

Disable your windows firewall, or open the ftp port 21 and you will be fine.

I am working on a browser based flash UI