Drag text between edit controls
The drag_edit_src.zip is the source code of CDragEdit and the drag_edit_test.zip is the test program, including its source code also, of CDragEdit. Both of zip files have one README.TXT. In this file, I have described how to use it and how it works. For your convenience, I also listed the content of README.TXT at the bottom of this mail.
In the past time, if you want to copy/move string from one edit control to another edit control or copy/move string from one edit window of foreign application to a edit control, only you can do is copy, cut, and paste via clipboard. For such a inconvenience, I implemented a CDragEdit control which is based on the standard CEdit control so that you can override the existent application's edit control as a drag-drop enabled control very easily. Besides that the CDragEdit's drag-drop capability is implemented via OLE's UDT (Uniform Data Transfer) so you can use its drag-drop to share data with most applications. e.g. Visual C++, WordPad, Word, ...,etc.
* Class hierarchy of CDragEdit
CObject
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+-CCmdTarget
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+-CWnd
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+-CEdit
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+-CDragEdit
* How to use the CDragEdit ?
To use a drag edit control in an existing dialog box
In your dialog definition file, you need to include the "CDragEdit.h" first, and then declare CDragEdit member variable corresponding to each edit control that you want it become a drag-drop enabled control. After you have declared the CDragEdit variables, you have to use DDX_Control() to subclass the standard edit control as a CDragEdit control in DoDataExchange() and call CDragEdit::Init(), in OnInitialDialog(), to initiate the CDragEdit and enable its drag-drop capability.To use a drag edit control in toolbar
Calling CDragEdit::Create() to create a drag edit control and then call CDragEdit::Init() to initiate this edit control and enable its drag-drop capability.For example, you want to use two drag edit controls in the CTestDragEDitDlg. You need to add some codes in your xxxDlg.h and xxxDlg.cpp as below:
////////////////////// //TestDragEditDlg.h ////////////////////// #include
"CDragEdit.h" //include it in your xxxDlg.h
class CTestDragEditDlg : public CDialog
{
...
// Dialog Data
//{{AFX_DATA(CTestDragEditDlg)
enum { IDD = IDD_DRAGEDIT };
CDragEdit m_edit2; //declare a CDragEdit variable
CDragEdit m_edit1; //for each edit control
//}}AFX_DATA
...
}
//////////////////////
//TestDragEditDlg.cpp
//////////////////////
void CTestDragEditDlg::DoDataExchange(CDataExchange* pDX)
{
CDialog::DoDataExchange(pDX);
//{{AFX_DATA_MAP(CTestDragEditDlg)
DDX_Control(pDX, IDC_EDIT2, m_edit2); //subclass the standard edit
DDX_Control(pDX, IDC_EDIT1, m_edit1); //control as a CDragEdit
//}}AFX_DATA_MAP
}
BOOL CTestDragEditDlg::OnInitDialog()
{
...
//You need to initiate CDragEdit first
m_edit1.Init();
m_edit2.Init();
...
}
How the CDragEdit works ?
As I mentioned, the drag-drop of CDragEdit is implemented via OLE drag-and-drop. So, I implemented a CDEDropTarget, which is based on COleDropTarget, and a CDEDataSource, which is based on COleDataSource. The CDEDropTaregt serves the CDragEdit as a data comsumer and the CCDEDataSource serves the CDragEdit as a data producer. Drag-drop data transfers usually begin when the user press the left button of mouse. So, in CDragEdit, simply handle the WM_LBUTTONDOWN messagem, coping selected string into a CDEDataSource object using CacheGlobalData(), and call CDEDataSource::DoDragDrop() to tranfer string to a drop target.
In CDragEdit::Init(), I register this window as a drop target by calling CDEDropTarget::Register(). Once a CDragEdit is registered with OLE to be a drop target, it becomes eligible to receive OnDropEnter(), OnDropOver(), OnDropLeave(), and OnDrop() notifications from OLE. In OnDrop(), the CDragEdit will retrieve data with CF_TEXT format from COleDataObject and place at the dropped point.
For more information, please refer to the comment of source code.
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