Allow horizontal swapping without creating new rows

[geekdave]

Dragging a widget downwards results in the widget swapping positions with the one below it.

We would like the option for the same behavior when dragging a widget horizontally. Currently instead of swapping positions with the widget to the right, we see instead that a new row is created and the widgets are shifted downwards, leaving undesired empty positions in the grid.

This is best illustrated with visual examples:

Desired behavior when dragging vertically:

Undesired behavior when dragging horizontally:

[davekiss]

+1. Or, perhaps, an option that disables/strips the empty spaces. If a user is organizing content, the empty space can really trip up what order things are going to appear in.

[lhammond]

+1

[MichaelPaulukonis]

+1

Some mechanism to set max_rows and max_cols would be nice.
That would probably require setting some sort of behavior rules to deal with the pushed-out elements.

[dustmoo]

I am working on this feature for an application I am working on. I will let you know when I get a stable fork.

[davekiss]

Thanks for being awesome and sharing!

[ehowardtillit]

+1 on this one too.

How do you guys cope with this at the moment ?

[kayrules]

+1

[feezy9]

+1

[davekiss]

@ehowardtillit You can use the less pretty jQuery UI http://jqueryui.com/sortable/#display-grid

[andyval]

+1

I would like that if you were to move B to where C is. Then E will move up to where B was and C will move to where E was.

[ehowardtillit]

@davekiss Yeah I know, but gridster abstracts lots of things and fits easier into the project i'm planning.

[dustmoo]

Hi Everyone, I am still working on this. The problem, unfortunately is complicated, because gridster mainly only pays attention to the top left grid location of widgets and then based on the size of the widget, shifts other widgets down or up respectively.

I am having to write a while new manage_movements method that has many more checks in place. It is proving to be a challenging exercise. I hope to have something by the end of next week. I'll let you know.

[ehowardtillit]

@dustmoo Thank you for keeping us posted about this. Don't hesitate if you need some testing being done.

[lhammond]

+1, make that thingie work, homey

we'll test that thingie

On Nov 15, 2012, at 11:22 AM, Enrique Howard-Tillit wrote:

@dustmoo Thank you for keeping us posted about this. Don't hesitate if you need some testing being done.

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