Drag and Drop - many uses

Drag-and-drop is the action of selecting an object by "grabbing" it and dragging it to a different location or onto another object.

Supported Drag and Drop sources and destinations

In the Help Editor, an object can be selected text, or a tree node in the Table_Of_Contents or Index_dockable_window Being such an easy and useful mechanism, we try to support as many drag and drop sources and destinations as possible:

Selected text or object in document window

• Change position of selected text or object in document window.
• Insert an image from the Project_Folder (often the \images sub folder) into an open document.
• Add keywords to index by dragging selected text on the Index Entries on Page dockable window.

Table Of Contents and Project Folder items

• Add hyperlink to topic page by dragging Table Of Contents item or onto the required position in the open document.
• Add topic to Table Of Contents by dragging the topic file from the Project_Folder.

How to Drag and Drop

The basic sequence involved in drag-and-drop is:

1. Press, and hold down, the button on the mouse or other pointing device, to "grab" the object,
2. "Drag" the object/cursor/pointing device to the desired location,
3. "Drop" the object by releasing the button.

• Drag & drop topics from the Content Tree or Project Folder