Re: Equivalent to gtk_drag_get_source_widget()?

[Paul Davis <paul linuxaudiosystems com>]

On Thu, 2005-11-10 at 21:52 +0000, Chris Vine wrote:
> On Thursday 10 November 2005 21:48, Chris Vine wrote:
> 
> [snip]
> 
> > This is only a problem if the same widget is set to be a drag source and a
> > drag destination.  Is that the case?  You can check it in other ways
> > anyway, such as by reference to the data supplied by the drag_data_get()
> > signal handler (GTK+) or the signal_drag_data_get() signal or
> > on_drag_data_get() method (gtkmm).
> >
> > You might find chapter 18 of the GTK+ tutorial helpful at
> > http://www.gtk.org/tutorial/c1920.html .  (It is directly translatable to
> > gtkmm).
> 
> Actually on further thought I am not even sure that even if the same widget is 
> set as a valid source and destination for the data in question, GDK/GTK+ 
> allows you to drag data to yourself.  You might want to check that this is 
> possible before you start worrying about it.

it absolutely does.

in fact, for the TreeView, you can *only* drag to yourself given the
default configuration of a treeview. i posted here recently about tricky
ways to workaround this.

--p