Re: [gtk-list] Re: Gtk and Drag and drop

[Elliot Lee <sopwith redhat com>]

On Wed, 11 Jun 1997, Arun Sharma wrote:

> 	e> Hmm... I have some very prelim patches (i.e. you can turn
> 	e> on gdk_show_events and see it telling you it is starting a
> 	e> drag, and I think I had it sending the drop events at one
> 	e> point :-) but I didn't see any specific framework for D&D
> 	e> support in gdk/gtk.
> 
> There is an already existing drag and drop protocol, which is used by
> the OffiX suite. I'm investigating if I can incorporate the same
> protocol in gtk, while preserving interoperability with OffiX.

I'm making it use OffiX already. If someone has docs on the Motif D&D
protocol, I'll try to incorporate that too.

I have most of the gdk side of things done now - I can drop an object from
the 'dndtest' program to testgtk and see the data.

> If I'm successful, I'll send the patches to the mailing list.
> 
> 	e> If you know what that consideration for D&D was, please
> 	e> let me know.
> 
> Just wanted to imitate some of the Netscape address book's (yet to be
> properly done) drag and drop functionality.

Hmm, that's not what I was asking about. The person I was replying to made
it sound like P&S had already put in some framework for D&D, but I
couldn't see any. Do you know if they have anything in place already for
D&D?

Thanks,
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