Re: when will GtkTargetList be ready?

[Matthew Weier OPhinney <matthew-lists weierophinney net>]

-- muppet <scott asofyet org> wrote
(on Friday, 29 August 2003, 11:39 PM -0400):
> On Friday, August 29, 2003, at 11:12  PM, Matthew Weier OPhinney wrote:
>
> > I'm trying to implement some DND stuff, and discovered that a method
> > I need, drag_dest_find_target, is dependent on the typemap
> > GtkTargetList -- which is currently unimplemented in gtk2-perl.
>
> GtkTargetList is described in gtkselection.h as a private data 
> structure, listed in the header "only for the convenience of gtkdnd.c".
>
> that would explain the absence of a boxed wrapper for it, and that 
> absence is the reason for the lack of a typemap.

Okay, makes sense.

> > when will this typemap be created? I'm assuming "Real Soon Now"(TM)
> > ;-)  I'm just wondering what the time frame might be, so I can get
> > an idea as to when to return to this part of the coding.
>
> stuff like this is basically waiting for somebody to need it.

Okay, I need it! :-)

> i'm rather ignorant about drag and drop.  

So am I... I just started porting this class from python this evening. I
think it's close to working... minus this portion.

> if you can tell me how GtkTargetList is used, and/or point me to some
> C code that uses it, i can get something together together for you.