>>I have a form (sounds familiar, eh?) where I need to drag a few controls and drop them onto an editbox. I've just set the dragmode=1 (automatic) on those, wrote the code in dragdrop method of the editbox, and it works as I wanted it to.
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>>Now the trouble is that these controls can't be clicked into. I've worked around this by setting the hotkeys to their labels and having a proper tab order, but that's a kludge.
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>>Is there a better way to have drag and drop AND to be able to set focus to the controls by just mouse?
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>Dragan,
>What I do is:
>-Use manual instead of automatic
>-In mousedown wait for a little time (ie: 0.2secs)
>-if still mdown() start drag manuall (this.drag(1)).

I don't care about your no-stars policy - if I couldn't find this trick elsewhere, then who knows how many others can't. So suffer some stars so this solution can be found next time someone needs it :).

Took me a while to implement this via Bindevent() - because I wanted to select the controls to which to add this by giving them an extra property, and that property wasn't saved. Can't add extra methods to members, I knew that, but didn't quite get it that it would equally not work for properties. So instead of just marking the controls in the PEM window and doing the bindevent() during the recursion through controls, I now have them listed in separate set of bindevent() calls in form's .init() - and it works as advertised, thanks!

How many tries did it take you to find 0.2s as the proper interval? I'd maybe cut it to 0.15 for myself (I'm the only user of this form), but it feels about right.