Angular DragDrop Component

The DragDrop component for Angular will make any DOM element draggable.

Prerequisites

Refer to Angular Getting Started before you start with this help topic.

Configuration

I. Imports

The DragDrop component for Angular requires the following imports.

II. @Component Decorator

A class is marked as an Angular component through the @Component decorator:

selector - CSS selector that identifies this component in a template
styles - inline-defined styles to be applied to this component's view
styleUrls - list of URLs to stylesheets to be applied to this component's view
template - inline-defined template for the view
templateUrl - URL to an external file containing a template for the view

The full list of @Component decorator properties is available on: Angular @Component Decorator API

Every jQWidgets Angular component has an [auto-create] attribute which determines whether the component is automatically created or is created on demand by API method call.
By default, the [auto-create] attribute value is true.

III. Create the AppComponent class

The AppComponent class is used to instantiate the app. In some of the examples, we use @ViewChild and ngAfterViewInit.

@ViewChild: makes a reference using a DragDrop selector. View queries are set before the ngAfterViewInit callback is called.
@ViewChild('dragDropReference') myDragDrop: jqxDragDropComponent;
ngAfterViewInit - this is an Angular Component Lifecycle method in which we create our angular components. After the view is initialized, myDragDrop is available.
For more information about this methods please refer to Angular Component Lifecycle API

The following example demonstrates the DragDrop component for Angular.

app.component.htm

app.component.css

app.component.ts

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IV. Create DragDrop component with JSON

Add the imports.
import { Component, ViewChild, AfterViewInit } from '@angular/core';
import { jqxDragDropComponent } from 'jqwidgets-ng/jqxdragdrop';
@Component decorator:
```
@Component({
    selector: 'app-root',
    template: `<jqxDragDrop #dragDropReference><div>I can be dragged only inside my parent</div></jqxDragDrop>`
})
```
Create the AppComponent class.
- @ViewChild: makes a reference using a DragDrop selector. View queries are set before the ngAfterViewInit callback is called.
```
@ViewChild('dragDropReference') myDragDrop: jqxDragDropComponent;
```
- ngAfterViewInit: All Angular components have an integrated method called createComponent that accept a JSON object with the component initialization properties. If no argument is passed, default properties will be used. If you would like to dynamically set properties after creation, you can use the setOptions method.
```
ngAfterViewInit(): void
{
    this.myDragDrop.createComponent(this.DragDropSettings);
}
```
The following example demonstrates how to create a DragDrop component for Angular by using the createComponent method.

Properties

The properties which are defined as attributes can be changed directly:

To get or set a property, which we did not define or call a method, we can do the following:

Import @ViewChild decorator:
Add the DragDrop component:
Get access to the DragDrop component and its API:
Finally, we can set/get properties like that:

Every component has a method setOptions which accepts a JSON object as an argument. This object contains component settings and you can use it to set a single or multiple properties dynamically.

Events

The dragStart event is triggered when the item is dragged for the first time.

The following example demonstrates how to add an event listener.

Note: Event Names of the DragDrop component for Angular are the same as the Event Names of the jqxDragDrop widget.
The only thing you need to do is to put "on" before the event name and upperCase it's the first letter.

DragDrop Examples

Overview

The following example demonstrates how to create a DragDrop component for Angular.

Change Dragged Object

The initFeedback is a callback which is executing when the feedback is created.

DragDrop API

API Reference of the jQWidgets DragDrop component for Angular: DragDrop API