How do external drops from Perl/Tk on Win32?

jeorgen has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Dear monks,
I've read through a good tutorial on using drag and drop on Win32 with Perl/Tk, with working scripts on local drag and drop and drop from e.g. a regular Windows window and into Perl/Tk. I've also scoured the net for more info.

But I'm at a loss of how to drag something from inside Perl/Tk and in to a regular Windows window. This should be possible as far as I can tell. The Tk::DragDrop::Win32Drop modules is basically empty though, but the above mentioned tutorial says that Win32 support was added in v800.005 for Perl/Tk. I'm running 800.022 .

Thanks for any advice!

/jeorgen

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Re: How do external drops from Perl/Tk on Win32? by Courage (Parson) on Jul 20, 2002 at 16:36 UTC
As I just did RTFM, RTFS and some testings, it is very likely that it is not implemented for Win32, and is implemented for SUN configurations. As a workaround that I tried (but not enough to succeed due to time limits) is to embed external C program via "-embed" option, which will allow Win32-drags. Courage, the Cowardly Dog.	[reply]
Re: Re: How do external drops from Perl/Tk on Win32? by jeorgen (Pilgrim) on Jul 21, 2002 at 22:51 UTC
Thanks for your answer Courage. I have managed to get it to work in wxpython, so it ought to work in wxperl, but there is not much documentation on it. I noticed there are wxperl tutorials at this site here and here and here. Maybe I should msg boo_radley and ask for advice. There is a drag-and drop implementation for Win32::GUI, but i think it needs patching in the C code, according to a page I can't locate right now, but which I believe is related to the docs on GUILoft and Oasis by Johan Lindström. Maybe one should encourage someone (using the means necessary) to create a functioning external drop in perl/Tk? /jeorgen	[reply]