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nik@tiuk.ti.com (Nick Ing-Simmons)
Re: Drag and Drop

Re: Drag and Drop

18 Jan 96 09:06:02 GMT via, but not speaking for : Texas Instruments Ltd.
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In <9601171758.AA14739@hermes>
On Wed, 17 Jan 96 12:58:58 EST
Adam Wasserman  writes:
>I've been looking at Drag and Drop as well.  What's the status of 
>SunDragDrop.pm and drop_test in Tk-b8?  I have to admit that drop_test 
>seemed not to work particularly well.  Is it useable? 

It is probably suffering from 'bit rot' - have not been near it in months.
When working at its best it would co-exist with OpenLook Drag&Drop
provided you used the 'right' olv?wm or ran the drop-site daemon.

>
>From: Nick Ing-Simmons 
>Date: Wed, 17 Jan 96 08:40:22 GMT
>> There have been several Drag&Drop implementations _within_ one application
>> done for Tk in its various forms. There is also a 'send' based one in 
>
>Is this implying that there is other d'n'd stuff floating around in the
>ptk universe waiting to be tried?

'send' based one is in Tcl/Tk + BLT.
Tix does something too.

Basic same-app is 'easy' with grab and $widget->Containing(Ev('X'),Ev('Y'))


'Right' one to do is Motif/CDE - when spec' is published.

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