Re: [gtk-list] Re: mouse location for drag-begin

[Todd Dukes <tdukes ibmoto com>]

Federico Mena Quintero wrote:
> 
> >  Is there an easy way to get the x, y coordinates
> >  of a drag begin. The only way I see by browsing the
> >  dnd-api.txt file that Owen wrote is to maybe keep
> >  track of the latest mouse press location and use that
> >  if you detect a drag.
> >
> >  I have a ctree and a clist. You can drag the selection of
> >  the ctree to the clist. I want to be able to use the row
> >  under the mouse if there is no selection.
> >
> >  I could set the ctree as a destination and use the drag_motion
> >  event. Would that be inadvisable?
> 
> What we do in Gmc is to save the mouse position upon receiving a
> button_press_event.  Then you use that value from the DnD handlers.
> 
>   Federico
> 
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This is what I wound up doing also. I just wanted to make sure there
was not a cleaner way.

thanks
Todd.

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