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[saeldion]

I'm thinking of migrating our current drag & drop solution to pragmatic since it seems well maintained and I like to approach the lib is taking.

I however have one requirement which I'm not certain pragmatic supports or if I'm just missing something in the documentation or my experimentation.

I need the ability to update the preview element as it is being dragged. The draggable should be dragged across a timeline (across hours and even days) and I want the preview to update its label to reflect the change in time and/or date. Is this possible?
It looks like the preview is generated once and is never touchable again but I might be missing something.

I appreciate any help or guidance any of you can provide 🙂

[ru-van-urk]

@saeldion Did you explore this further? I am curious if you found a solution.

[saeldion]

Unfortunately no, I didn’t find a solution. I did some digging and experimenting but I couldn’t find a way to achieve what I wanted.
So in the end I wrote my own drag & drop implementation using PointerEvents and so far it is doing what I need it to do. It’s kinda hacked together and will probably bite me in the ass one day. But for now it gets the job done 😅

[ru-van-urk]

Thanks for your response. I'll keep hacking at it with this library.

[hungify]

Hey @ru-van-urk @saeldion!
I don't understand your expectations well.
However, this may relate to your situation.
Trying to apply the technique in the following guide: renders a 1x1 element as the native drag preview.

You can check it out in my repo and example.

[saeldion]

Good to know there is a workaround!