Magnetic Grid in GWT

Hi there,

I'm actually writing my Thesis and I'm very new to GWT, but not to Java. I have a lot of experience working with Java, but I don't know how much Java libraries are applicable for GWT.
What I want to implement is a magnetic grid (displayed with thin rectangles) and to drag and drop some elements I will define into this grid (some icons to be displayed by clicking a button). So the sense is, that those dropped elements will notify which rectangle is next to them and automatically will be placed in the center of ne nearest rectangle. I suggested to work with something like getPosition(), setPosition(), getOffsetParents() or scrollTo() in JavaScript etc as MooTools would provide such methods. I first thought about implementing all the things by myself, by writing also the JavaScript manually. GWT (on the first look) seems a very powerful and easy way to optimize my way of implementation. But I don't know how I can apply other frameworks to work within GWT. Well, as I told you, I'm very new to that thing.

I would appreciate any kind of help, suggestion, code snippet, book or hyperlink you can give me. I hope my problem is explained well enough, otherwise please give me a hint, so that I can respond and explain my problem in more detail.

Thanks in advance!


Greetz from Germany,


Yours sincerely


N.B.

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