Ext.ux.grid.DataDrop

[VinylFox]

This is a plugin for the Grid that allows dropping of rows from spreadsheets directly into the grid. More details along with a screencast are on my blog post.

• Blog Post: DataDrop - Drag Grid Data in From a Spreadsheet
• Blog Post: DataDrop - Forwarding Mouse Events Through Layers
• Google Code Repo (outdated, see Github instead)
• DataDrop code on Github (current code)
• See it in action (ScreenCast)

Not sure what else to say...

Enjoy!

[chemist458]

Wow, that looks like the hottest thing I have ever seen!!
Cant wait to try it out, incredible work, thanks!

[VinylFox]

Thanks chemist458.

Im hoping to get some feedback on the implementation, as im not sure how it will work with different makes/versions of spreadsheet programs.

I have been playing with dragging data from programs other than spreadsheets, and just a word of warning, DO NOT drag emails from Thunderbird into Firefox, as it will peg the cpu for both apps.

[chemist458]

I told everyone in my office, and they nearly wet themselves!!
Hopefully this week I will implement it and give a good try
George

[VinylFox]

@chemist458 - Excellent, that was my intention - to get people to urinate on themselves. Good to hear

Be sure to get the most recent version from my SVN repo on Google code. Both Nige (Animal) and I have made some major changes since the initial version was thrown together.

[mystix]

@chemist458 - Excellent, that was my intention - to get people to urinate on themselves. Good to hear
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good job raising a stink

[mystix]

p.s. i really like @nige's singleton plugin pattern!

[Animal]

I've been delving deep into the W3 Events API (And the crappy IE one)...

You can actually have the textarea that recieves the drop events covering 100% of the data area of the grid, but being transparent, so that you can drop directly over the grids rows.

You retain mouse control by forwarding mouse events from the textarea into te underlying elements. So we now have completely transparent Dragging from external apps into GridPanels.

Below shows how. Hopefully, Shea and I will be able to get this posted to Google code:

*UPDATE*
Now posted on Google Code

[Scorpie]

Holy , is there anything you guys can`t do?

[VinylFox]

Updated the DataDrop code and integrated Animals override that allowed event forwarding through masking layers. Pretty cool stuff. My blog post explains more about it...

Forwarding Mouse Events Through Layers

Took a new ScreenCast of it in action

First post updated.