I'm using jQuery UI's draggable and droppable libraries in a simple ASP.NET proof of concept application. This page uses
the ASP.NET AJAX UpdatePanel to do partial page updates.
The page allows a user to drop an item into a trashcan div, which will invoke a postback that deletes a record from
the database, then rebinds
the list (and other controls) that
the item was drug from. All of these elements (the draggable items and
the trashcan div) are inside an ASP.NET UpdatePanel.
Here is
the dragging and dropping initialization script:
function initDragging()
{
$(".person").draggable({helper:'clone'});
$("#trashcan").droppable({
accept: '.person',
tolerance: 'pointer',
hoverClass: 'trashcan-hover',
activeClass: 'trashcan-active',
drop: onTrashCanned
});
}
$(document).ready(function(){
initDragging();
var prm = Sys.WebForms.PageRequestManager.getInstance();
prm.add_endRequest(function()
{
initDragging();
});
});
function onTrashCanned(e,ui)
{
var id = $('input[id$=hidID]', ui.draggable).val();
if (id != undefined)
{
$('#hidTrashcanID').val(id);
__doPostBack('btnTrashcan','');
}
}
When
the page posts back, partially updating
the UpdatePanel's content, I rebind
the draggables and droppables. When I then grab a draggable with my cursor, I
get an "htmlfile: Unspecified error." exception. I can resolve this problem in
the jQuery library by replacing elem.offsetParent with calls to this function that I wrote:
function IESafeOffsetParent(elem)
{
try
{
return elem.offsetParent;
}
catch(e)
{
return document.body;
}
}
I also have to avoid calls to elem.getBoundingClientRect() as it throws
the same error. For those interested, I only had to make these changes in
the jQuery.fn.offset function in
the Dimensions Plugin.
My questions are:
Although this works, are there better ways (cleaner; better performance; without having to modify
the jQuery library) to solve this problem?
If not, what's
the best way to manage keeping my changes in sync when I update
the jQuery libraries in
the future? For, example can I extend
the library somewhere other than just inline in
the files that I download from
the jQuery website.
Update:
@some It's not publicly accessible, but I will see if SO will let me post
the relevant code into this answer. Just create an ASP.NET Web Application (name it DragAndDrop) and create these files. Don't forget to set Complex.aspx as your start page. You'll also need to download
the jQuery UI drag and drop plug in as well as jQuery core
Complex.aspx
<%@ Page Language="C#" AutoEventWireup="true" CodeBehind="Complex.aspx.cs" Inherits="DragAndDrop.Complex" %>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" >
<head runat="server">
<title>Untitled Page</title>
<script src="jquery-1.2.6.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script src="jquery-ui-personalized-1.5.3.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
function initDragging()
{
$(".person").draggable({helper:'clone'});
$("#trashcan").droppable({
accept: '.person',
tolerance: 'pointer',
hoverClass: 'trashcan-hover',
activeClass: 'trashcan-active',
drop: onTrashCanned
});
}
$(document).ready(function(){
initDragging();
var prm = Sys.WebForms.PageRequestManager.getInstance();
prm.add_endRequest(function()
{
initDragging();
});
});
function onTrashCanned(e,ui)
{
var id = $('input[id$=hidID]', ui.draggable).val();
if (id != undefined)
{
$('#hidTrashcanID').val(id);
__doPostBack('btnTrashcan','');
}
}
</script>
</head>
<body>
<form id="form1" runat="server">
<asp:ScriptManager ID="ScriptManager1" runat="server">
</asp:ScriptManager>
<div>
<asp:UpdatePanel ID="updContent" runat="server" UpdateMode="Always">
<ContentTemplate>
<asp:LinkButton ID="btnTrashcan" Text="trashcan" runat="server" CommandName="trashcan"
onclick="btnTrashcan_Click" style="display:none;"></asp:LinkButton>
<input type="hidden" id="hidTrashcanID" runat="server" />
<asp:Button ID="Button1" runat="server" Text="Save" onclick="Button1_Click" />
<table>
<tr>
<td style="width: 300px;">
<asp:DataList ID="lstAllPeople" runat="server" DataSourceID="odsAllPeople"
DataKeyField="ID">
<ItemTemplate>
<div class="person">
<asp:HiddenField ID="hidID" runat="server" Value='<%# Eval("ID") %>' />
Name:
<asp:Label ID="lblName" runat="server" Text='<%# Eval("Name") %>' />
<br />
<br />
</div>
</ItemTemplate>
</asp:DataList>
<asp:ObjectDataSource ID="odsAllPeople" runat="server" SelectMethod="SelectAllPeople"
TypeName="DragAndDrop.Complex+DataAccess"
onselecting="odsAllPeople_Selecting">
<SelectParameters>
<asp:Parameter Name="filter" Type="Object" />
</SelectParameters>
</asp:ObjectDataSource>
</td>
<td style="width: 300px;vertical-align:top;">
<div id="trashcan">
drop here to delete
</div>
<asp:DataList ID="lstPeopleToDelete" runat="server"
DataSourceID="odsPeopleToDelete">
<ItemTemplate>
ID:
<asp:Label ID="IDLabel" runat="server" Text='<%# Eval("ID") %>' />
<br />
Name:
<asp:Label ID="NameLabel" runat="server" Text='<%# Eval("Name") %>' />
<br />
<br />
</ItemTemplate>
</asp:DataList>
<asp:ObjectDataSource ID="odsPeopleToDelete" runat="server"
onselecting="odsPeopleToDelete_Selecting" SelectMethod="GetDeleteList"
TypeName="DragAndDrop.Complex+DataAccess">
<SelectParameters>
<asp:Parameter Name="list" Type="Object" />
</SelectParameters>
</asp:ObjectDataSource>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</ContentTemplate>
</asp:UpdatePanel>
</div>
</form>
</body>
</html>
Complex.aspx.cs
namespace DragAndDrop
{
public partial class Complex : System.Web.UI.Page
{
protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
}
protected List<int> DeleteList
{
get
{
if (ViewState["dl"] == null)
{
List<int> dl = new List<int>();
ViewState["dl"] = dl;
return dl;
}
else
{
return (List<int>)ViewState["dl"];
}
}
}
public class DataAccess
{
public IEnumerable<Person> SelectAllPeople(IEnumerable<int> filter)
{
return Database.SelectAll().Where(p => !filter.Contains(p.ID));
}
public IEnumerable<Person> GetDeleteList(IEnumerable<int> list)
{
return Database.SelectAll().Where(p => list.Contains(p.ID));
}
}
protected void odsAllPeople_Selecting(object sender, ObjectDataSourceSelectingEventArgs e)
{
e.InputParameters["filter"] = this.DeleteList;
}
protected void odsPeopleToDelete_Selecting(object sender, ObjectDataSourceSelectingEventArgs e)
{
e.InputParameters["list"] = this.DeleteList;
}
protected void Button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
foreach (int id in DeleteList)
{
Database.DeletePerson(id);
}
DeleteList.Clear();
lstAllPeople.DataBind();
lstPeopleToDelete.DataBind();
}
protected void btnTrashcan_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
int id = int.Parse(hidTrashcanID.Value);
DeleteList.Add(id);
lstAllPeople.DataBind();
lstPeopleToDelete.DataBind();
}
}
}
Database.cs
namespace DragAndDrop
{
public static class Database
{
private static Dictionary<int, Person> _people = new Dictionary<int,Person>();
static Database()
{
Person[] people = new Person[]
{
new Person("Chad")
, new Person("Carrie")
, new Person("Richard")
, new Person("Ron")
};
foreach (Person p in people)
{
_people.Add(p.ID, p);
}
}
public static IEnumerable<Person> SelectAll()
{
return _people.Values;
}
public static void DeletePerson(int id)
{
if (_people.ContainsKey(id))
{
_people.Remove(id);
}
}
public static Person CreatePerson(string name)
{
Person p = new Person(name);
_people.Add(p.ID, p);
return p;
}
}
public class Person
{
private static int _curID = 1;
public int ID { get; set; }
public string Name { get; set; }
public Person()
{
ID = _curID++;
}
public Person(string name)
: this()
{
Name = name;
}
}
}
