[oXygen-user] Moving Elements in the Outline View : How To Move Nested Element Out

[Radu Coravu]

Hi Eliot,

Indeed this is a tricky thing to do but we will discuss it and try to 
find a more intuitive solution for the DnD behaviour.

Regards,
Radu

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Radu Coravu 
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Eliot Kimber wrote:
> I think there's a lot more that could be done here. I'm used to 
> Arbortext Editor's tree view, which is where I often did most of my 
> editing, using the tags-off view essentially as a preview of what I 
> was editing in the tree view. That's not possible with the OxygenXML 
> tree view.
>
> However, the Arbortext tree view did let you move things around 
> unambiguously by giving you different insertion point indicators 
> depending on precisely where you move your cursor. I'm sure this is 
> tricky UI stuff to implement but that's what I was looking for.
>
> For example, if I drag to after an element I'd like it to default to 
> moving to the end of that element's content but if I drag a bit to 
> left, for example, it moves the insertion point to after the element, 
> then after that element's parent, and so on.
>
> I would never have intuitively thought to just drop my selection onto 
> an element and have it go someplace--I was looking for an explicit 
> insertion point indicator.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Eliot
>