Re: dnd from clist to text entry question

[Mike Dreibelbis <maddoc en com>]

Excellent, that's what I was looking for, it works very nicely. Thanks for 
your quick and helpful response.

BTW, I saw you got a mention in this months Linux Journal for ManEdit, 
congrats!

Mike

On Sunday 06 May 2001 20:17, learfox furry ao net wrote:
> > I'm creating a dialog box which allows the user to drag text from a clist
> > into a GtkEntry widget. I've got the drag and drop stuff working, but
> > only if you actually select a row from the clist first, then drag it to
> > the entry widget and drop it. In my mind it seems rather unfriendly to
> > force them to click once to select the row, then preform the dnd.
>
> It's that way on most applications.
>
> The DND drag_begin detects button press and a motion beyond the origin of
> the button press.  So I think in yer drag_begin you can try and use
> gtk_clist_get_selection_info() to see which row it was over, then
> manipulate the clist `focus row'.
>
> So when yer data request calls on that clist, instead of sending data
> for the selected row, send data for the focus row (see the GtkCList
> structure for the focus row member).
>
>
> One BIG WARNING though, this means that DND won't work for multiple
> selections. For example if the user wanted to select a bunch of items,
> then drag them to a destination widget.
>
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