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- From: beck@irs132.inf.tu-dresden.de (Andre Beck)
- Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
- Subject: Drag-n-Drop
- Keywords: Xlib Xt drag drop
- Message-ID: <1k3j86INN15p@irz401.inf.tu-dresden.de>
- Date: 26 Jan 93 14:52:54 GMT
- Reply-To: Andre_Beck@IRS.Inf.TU-Dresden.DE
- Organization: Dept. of Computer Science, TU Dresden, Germany.
- Lines: 35
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- Hi,
-
- I'm on the way to write a X Desktop Manager for the PD that uses a self
- implemented IconBox widget with Drag-n-Drop functionality.
-
- The problem is, where to get Documents about current D&D implementations
- on top of X ? I've heard that Motif 1.2 and also OpenLook use D&D in some
- compatible manner, but where to get Info about the protocol they use ?
- (It would be nice to be compatible with some commercial applications)
-
- My current understanding of the X IPC facilities (or better to say
- ICC for Inter Client Communication) tells me that it will very likely use
- the X Selection Algorithms with some special destination type atoms to
- provide D&D in a way that also would work without D&D and doing D&D only
- as a kind of nice animation. I would also Implement it that way, but with
- the right pointer to the protocol level docs, I could make it highly
- compatible. I'm also interested in how they break out of the X Pointer
- grab model without getting problems/race conditions.
-
- ==> If you know about places where to find such dox (export's drag-n-drop
- directory looks emty) please post them here or mail me.
- I'm not interested in dox about the routines Motif 1.2 or OL provide
- the programmer to make D&D, I won't use them. The PROTOCOL is what
- I'm looking for.
-
- Thanx.
-
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