[CLA][Patch] DnD extension: 2D (i.e. non-linear) Container using absolute positioning

[chucky]

Following description is copied from the forum (http://dojotoolkit.org/forum/dojo-core-dojo-0-9/dojo-core-development-discussion/patch-dnd-extension-2d-i-e-non-linear-cont)

I extended the DnD module to support inserting items at the position where they are dropped. It is done by absolute positioning within the Container. I created a simple demo at ​http://mikula.ic.cz/dnddemo/ Basically, when Manager publishes the "/dnd/drop" topic, it passes an additional argument -- mouse event that caused the drop. Container constructor accepts an additional Boolean parameter absolutePositioning -- when true, the items are positioned absolutely within the container at the position calculated from the passed mouse event.

There is still an odd behavior when dragging more items at once -- they are all placed at the same position. Still I would rather have 2D positioning work fine for single items only than not have 2D positioning at all.

I attach the patch.

[chucky]

patch against revision 14394

[Eugene Lazutkin]

Moving all open ticketd to the future.

[ben hockey]

i'm trying to identify stale tickets. if there is a need to keep this ticket open, please replace the "needsreview" keyword with "reviewed". if there is no need to keep this ticket open then please close it.

[bill]

Sounds like MDND, but simpler in that there's nothing to avoid the items overlapping each other.

[Eugene Lazutkin]

Need more time to study the solution. But it does look like it overlaps with dojox.mdnd somewhat.

[dylan]

Sorry, I have no idea why this was never renewed. It's very stale now, so I'm closing as patchwelcome. I promise a faster review if there's interest in updating against master.