Screencast: New drag/drop features in SVN/beta-2

Here’s a screencast showing some of the new drag/drop features we’ve added in MODx Revolution 2.0.0-beta-2 (and in SVN):

http://modxcms.com/assets/videos/dragdrop.mov

Enjoy.

That’s really impressive

Wow, that is pretty neat. I could see myself having some fun uses for that.

I saw this the other day, and this cast is even better...very cool feature. I am blown away at how cool this is.

This brings a question to mind... can snippet code contain MODx tags now, or do you have to use functions to run a snippet in code?

Quote from: sottwell at Jun 22, 2009, 02:12 PM

This brings a question to mind... can snippet code contain MODx tags now, or do you have to use functions to run a snippet in code?

No. Snippet code is PHP code only. You’ll have to use functions (and properties) do to so in a snippet.

Ok, so what happens if you drag a snippet element into snippet code? Is it smart enough to know that since it’s snippet code it has to be a function call instead of snippet tags?

This is getting not better and better, but more and more fantastic!

Another question: is it possible to get the snipper parameter popup box again? Lets say you want to ajust the parameters for the snippet, via the popup.

Quote from: sottwell at Jun 22, 2009, 02:20 PM

Ok, so what happens if you drag a snippet element into snippet code? Is it smart enough to know that since it’s snippet code it has to be a function call instead of snippet tags?

Sort of - it wont let you drop elements into snippet/plugin code.

Quote from: Sylvaticus at Jun 22, 2009, 02:37 PM

Another question: is it possible to get the snipper parameter popup box again? Lets say you want to ajust the parameters for the snippet, via the popup.

Unfortunately, no. That would require a lot of extra JS per page load (to do the functionality required for that) and would be near-impossible to get it to work in other RTEs.

A side note, RTE’s such as TinyMCE will have to implement their own handlers for using drag/drop into them. TinyMCE, like most, poses a problem because it uses IFRAMEs, which dont handle drag/dropping very well (security reasons). (iow, tinymce currently doesnt support this - only the standard textfield does at this time.)