drag drop into document object

Actually you can drag and drop information from the Actions Pane into the Microsoft Word document.

In a sample project I created an Actions Pane which contains a text box control. I set the AllowDrop property of the text box control to True and then added to several of the text box events to allow me to drag and drop text from the text box control to the document and from the document to the text box control.

I have included the code from my Actions Pane class below.

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Public Class MyActionPane

Private MouseIsDown As Boolean

Private Sub TextBox1_DragDrop(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.Windows.Forms.DragEventArgs) Handles TextBox1.DragDrop

Me.TextBox1.Text = e.Data.GetData(DataFormats.Text)

End Sub

Private Sub TextBox1_DragEnter(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.Windows.Forms.DragEventArgs) Handles TextBox1.DragEnter

If e.Data.GetDataPresent(DataFormats.Text) Then
e.Effect = DragDropEffects.Copy
End If

End Sub

Private Sub TextBox1_MouseDown(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.Windows.Forms.MouseEventArgs) Handles TextBox1.MouseDown

MouseIsDown = True

End Sub

Private Sub TextBox1_MouseMove(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.Windows.Forms.MouseEventArgs) Handles TextBox1.MouseMove

If MouseIsDown Then
Me.TextBox1.DoDragDrop(Me.TextBox1.Text, DragDropEffects.Copy)
End If

MouseIsDown = False

End Sub

End Class

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Regards,

Ken Laws
MSFT

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KenLaws at 2007-9-8 >