[oak perl] DnD

Craig McLaughlin cpm at bitbucket.com
Thu Jan 8 17:19:04 CST 2004


On Thu, 8 Jan 2004, Belden Lyman wrote:
> Intra-application drag-n-drop using Tk.pm:
> http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2001/12/11/perltk.html

Yep, read that, played with the examples.

> Inter-application drag-n-drop using Gtk.pm:
> http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtk-perl-list/2003-January/msg00012.html
> http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtk-perl-list/2003-January/msg00013.html

Yep, read those.

> Have a look at the gtk-perl archives (google them up), this is probably
> a common question.

>From what I've found so far, it's a common question, but rarely is it 
answered in a way that makes sense. :)

> I don't do much of anything with any of the widget libraries, (so take
> that as the caveat that it is when reading above resources ;) but I
> suspect that the correct DnD code to use will be very specific to the
> widget library in question. Which means that a Wx example might be
> academically interesting to look at, but not terribly useful when
> trying to translate into Gtk.

True.  And what's more, there are platform issues and widget library 
issues (as apparently there are a couple of different "flavors" of DND 
protocol).

> *sigh* and here I thought you were going to talk about D&D.

<wry grin> If I don't pull all my hair out trying to figure it out, I'll 
share what I learn.  Or at least share pointers to helpful information. :)

--Craig





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