How to drop the dragged image to a already existing non selected frame?

found the error...
I didn't change the
#define customFlavor PMFlavor('AOL1')

When I changed it to AOL2 in my plugin..its calling the correct function..

Thanks for all your help..

Regards,
Yopangjo

I have both BasicDragDrop and my Plugin working with the same copy of InDesign.

Please verify the issue, it should be because of some other reason.

Make sure you are using a unique DragFlavor.

Regards
- Amit Gupta
www.metadesignsolutions.com

Hi ,
I did the way Amit suggested and it is working fine.But there is still one more issue left.

Both the BasicDragDrop and my own plugin provide the IID_IK2SERVICEPROVIDER, kLayoutDDTargHelperProviderImpl

So I can use my implementation for this only when I delete the BasicDragDrop pluign.
This is certainly a serious limitation as there might be some other plugin which does the same thing and I may not be knowing about that..
So pls tell me how to resolve this issue?

regards,
Yopangjo

Thanks a ton Amit..it worked..
Now i have this jealous question..how did you manage to arrive at this solution without any direct support from the SDK ?? :)

You must be a genuis..

Thanks a lot once again..

cheers,
Yopangjo

Hi Yopangjo,<br /><br />You need to make your own boss class to accept Drop's of your Flavor <br /><br /> Class<br /> {<br /> kXXXMyLayoutDropFlavorBoss,<br /> kInvalidClass,<br /> {<br /> IID_IK2SERVICEPROVIDER, kLayoutDDTargHelperProviderImpl,<br /> IID_IDRAGDROPTARGETFLAVORHELPER, kXXXMyLayoutDropFlavorImpl, //override CDragDropTargetFlavorHelper just like BasicDnD sample<br /> }<br /> },<br /><br />Then u can use the following code in ProcessDragDropCommand function for calculating the PageItem for the drop location<br /><br />MyClass::ProcessDragDropCommand(IDragDropTarget* ptrTarget, <br /> IDragDropController* ptrController, DragDrop::eCommandType action)<br />{<br />InterfacePtr<IControlView> ptrCntlView( ptrTarget, IID_ICONTROLVIEW);<br /><br />PBPMPoint ptMouseLoc = Utils<ILayoutUIUtils>()->ComputePasteboardPoint(ptrController->GetDragMouseLocation(), ptrCntlView);<br /><br />InterfacePtr<ILayoutControlViewHelper> ptrLayoutCntlViewHlpr(ptrCntlView,IID_ILAYOUTCONTROLVIEWHELPER);<br />if (ptrLayoutCntlViewHlpr) <br />{<br />InterfacePtr<IPMUnknown> Temp(ptrLayoutCntlViewHlpr->QueryHitTestPageItemNew(ptMouseLoc , kDirSelNoGuidesHitTestHandlerBoss));<br /> if (Temp)<br /> UIDRef OnDropPageItem = ::GetUIDRef(Temp);<br />}<br />}<br /><br />I hope this help's<br /><br />Regards<br />- Amit Gupta<br />www.metadesignsolutions.com

Thanks both amit and pardal..
But I am still clueless about how to go further.
How can I catch the drop event..?
As in case of basicDragDrop sample plugin the panel itself was catching the drop event by aggregating the IDragDropTarget interface.But here where can I aggregate the above interface?

Please help me as I am terribly stucked..

regards,
Yopangjo

Hi Yopangjo,

You don't need to iterate through the boxes, instead to this consider using ILayoutControlViewHelper interface.

It has two functions which performs hittest for you.

Best Regards
- Amit Gupta
www.metadesignsolutions.com

Hi yopangjo,

I did it this way:

1) drop occurred, remember the location
2) iterate through the page items and find the items in which the drop point is located.
3) choose the appropriate item (for ex z-buffer, your own preference).
4) you got the frame, now you just need to replace the image or whatever.

If you find this interesting and helpful, let me know, we can discuss more.

Pardal