jot down some thoughts about drop-zone dragging.

diff --git a/gtk2_ardour/editor_drag.cc b/gtk2_ardour/editor_drag.cc
index 57d4d1f067fc38f54ce70dca33ad60d4ac94d79c..9d1ff29e8340462404be0f7b1e81a3132845dbd1 100644 (file)
--- a/gtk2_ardour/editor_drag.cc
+++ b/gtk2_ardour/editor_drag.cc
@@ -835,6 +835,16 @@ RegionMotionDrag::motion (GdkEvent* event, bool first_move)
                 *
                 * B) grab the lower, drag 1 down, region (and mouse) are in dropzone, The End.
                 *    upper region is only down one track and cannot be moved into the zone.
+                *
+                * Proposed solution:
+                *  keep track of how many regions are in the DZ (private var),
+                *  also count from how many tracks the dragged-regions come from (first move)
+                *
+                *  if not all regions are in the DZ, keep going.
+                *
+                *  Using 'default height' H for all dropzone regions will make things
+                *  a lot simpler: (number_of_DZ_entries * H + Pointer_YPOS - DZ_YPOS) / H.
+                *  (because at this point in time PlaylistDropzoneMap is not yet populated)
                 */
                delta_time_axis_view = _time_axis_views.size () - _last_pointer_time_axis_view;
 #ifdef DEBUG_DROPZONEDRAG