Need method in dojo.dnd.Selector to programmatically select containing node

[Aleksey Rechinskiy]

Hi!

I'm not sure if that feature request wasn't discussed, but I've just finished a quick search over a trac and forums and found nothing.

I use dojo.dnd.Selector and its derived classes as containers for some data, that is also used in some other places on my page. When user clicks on associated with contained node data elsewhere on page, it would be very nice and convenient, if the node in dojo.dnd.Selector will be selected. To do that, I need a method in dojo.dnd.Selector like, say, selectNodeById(nodeId).

Long time ago, in days of AFAIR Dojo 1.1, I wrote a following method in my dojo.dnd.Selector derived class ( it is assumed, that only one node could be selected in container ):

selectNode: function(domNode){
	this.current = dojo.byId(domNode);
	this.selectNone();
	this.anchor = this.current;
	this._addItemClass(this.anchor, "Anchor");
	this.selection[this.current.id] = 1;
}

I think, it could be used as a starting point for selectNodeById() method, but I'm not sure if my method is completely correct, so a small code audit should be done.

I would like to suggest to include selectNodeById() functionality in dojo.dnd.Selector, as I think it would greatly extend dojo.dnd.Selector class and its descendants use-cases.

Thanks!

[Eugene Lazutkin]

Makes sense.

[bill]

... since we passed the 1.4 beta cutoff

[Eugene Lazutkin]

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