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- From: jaker@csugrad.cs.vt.edu (Jake Rose)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: Icon dragging fun (Hmm?)
- Message-ID: <C03y4t.9nF@csugrad.cs.vt.edu>
- Date: 31 Dec 92 05:05:16 GMT
- References: <C017xr.48z@csugrad.cs.vt.edu> <72563@cup.portal.com>
- Organization: Virginia Tech Computer Science Dept, Blacksburg, VA
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- Lee_Robert_Willis@cup.portal.com writes:
- >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.
-
- That's okay - as I stated, my question wasn't how to implement such a system,
- but whether there was robust support for interapp icon dragging, which it
- appears there is not - the only support seems to be WB to your app, which means
- anything running on another screen has no use for this kind of thing. <sigh>
- Maybe an implementation and protocol, after development, could be presented to
- CBM so something would get done about this... ...it's kind of expected these
- days, what with all the image-dragging that apps under OSes such as NeXTstep
- and MS Windows (which I have to say *does* have "screens" - try "maximize"
- sometime, willya folks?), and even Mac apps (Intraapp only, as far as I've
- seen). There aren't any Style Guide recommendations for how to handle it if
- you must/wish to implement such a system. In general, it doesn't exist except
- on the Workbench. <double sigh> Oh, well - off to BOB around... :)
-
- >Lee Lee_Robert_Willis@cup.portal.com
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- Jake Rose :: Every cloud has a silver lining.
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