Re: SimpleList drag and drop

[zentara <zentara1 sbcglobal net>]

On Wed, 20 Sep 2006 07:20:19 +0200
"Ratcliffe, Jeffrey (Peters)" <Jeffrey Ratcliffe External eads com> wrote:

> > Hi, I'm no expert on this, but read "perldoc Gtk2::Widget" for the
> > drag-n-drop callbacks.
>
> I did (honestly!)

Yeah, the docs are hard to grasp.
Check out
http://live.gnome.org/GnomeLove/DragNDropTutorial
for a good overview.

> > Usually, you don't drop onto the same widget, but for your example
> > add
> >
> > $slist->signal_connect("drag_drop" => sub { warn "dropped\n";  } );
>
> OK. That certainly gives me a dropped signal. But somehow the timing with the update of the tied data array 
> is out. 
>
> For the attached code, at the dropped signal, the array is still in its original order. Only when pressing 
> the button (or redoing the drop) is the new order displayed.
>
> Any ideas?

Your script works for me, the order changes immediately on a drop.
Maybe you need a newer version of Gtk2?
I'm running Glib-1.120  and  Gtk2-1.121

Maybe you could put a 
Gtk2->main_iteration while Gtk2->events_pending;
in your callback?


zentara


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