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- Path: sparky!uunet!portal!cup.portal.com!Lee_Robert_Willis
- From: Lee_Robert_Willis@cup.portal.com
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: Icon dragging fun (Hmm?)
- Message-ID: <72563@cup.portal.com>
- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 92 15:50:47 PST
- Organization: The Portal System (TM)
- Distribution: world
- References: <C017xr.48z@csugrad.cs.vt.edu>
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- >Hello out there in programmation land...
- >
- >...does anyone know if it's possible to have your program become a *source*
- >for draggable icons (ala NeXT apps), and if so how to pass different types
- >of information between apps this way? It would be extremely user-friendly
- >and neat-o-keen if this were possible, but as far as I can tell CBM's only
- >set things up so that the Workbench is the only source of draggable icons,
- >and an app can only be a destination, and the only type of information that
- >can be passed is file info. This is kind of restrictive! Is there any OS
- >support for custom draggable "stuff"? Thanks!
- >--
- >::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
- >Jake Rose :: Every cloud has a silver lining.
- >jaker@csugrad.cs.vt.edu :: Every silver lining has a cloud inside it.
- >::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
- >
-
- Hi Jake,
-
- As far as I know, you can't put icons onto the Workbench screen. But you can
- create your own drag & drop interface on a custom screen. AmigaVision does
- this for its icons. I've also done this in my FreeWare program
- 'Precognition'.
-
- Check out the 'Bobs' section of the RKMs. I could probably dig up
- some sample code if your interested.
-
- Lee Lee_Robert_Willis@cup.portal.com
-