By default, the AutoDrag property is exAutoDragNone(0). The AutoDrag feature indicates what the control does when the user clicks an item and starts dragging it. For instance, using the AutoDrag feature you can automatically lets the user to drag and drop the data to OLE compliant applications like Microsoft Word, Excel and so on. Also, you can use the AutoDrag property ( exAutoDragScroll + exAutoDragScrollOnShortTouch, or 4112 ) to let user scrolls the control's content when user touches a capacitive screen.

Once the drag and drop operation starts the mouse pointer is changed to MOVE cursor if the operation is possible, else if the Drag and Drop operation fails or if it is not possible, the mouse pointer is changed to NO cursor.

If using the AutoDrag property on:

• exAutoDragPosition
• exAutoDragPositionKeepIndent
• exAutoDragPositionAny

the Drag and Drop starts only:

• item from cursor is a selectable ( SelectableItem property on True, default ) and sortable item ( SortableItem property on True, default ). 
• if multiple items are selected, the selection is contiguously.

Use the AutoDrag property to allow Drag and Drop operations like follows:

• Ability to change the column or row position without having to manually add the OLE drag and drop events
• Ability to drag and drop the data as text, to your favorite Office applications, like Word, Excel, or any other OLE-Automation compliant
• Ability to drag and drop the data as it looks, to your favorite Office applications, like Word, Excel, or any other OLE-Automation compliant
• Ability to smoothly scroll the control's content moving the mouse cursor up or down
• and more ...