I have a text widget and am trying to make dragdrop work. What I want to do is be able to select words using the normal <Double-1> binding, but <Shift-3> will invoke a drag of the selected word.

I have an application where this "used to" work, but then a new version of Tk or Tk::Text broke it.

The problem is that <3> is bound to a menu. The real problem is that all combinations of <3> are bound to the menu, so no matter what combination of key modifiers (Shift, Alt, Ctrl, etc.) I press, the text widget "does me the favor" of mapping that to the menu invocation. What I wanted was for Tk::Text to invoke the menu on <3> and *only* on <3>, not on <Shift-3> or <Meta-3> and so on.

My favorite slander of microsoft applies here: "Do me a favor, don't do me any favors". I cannot seem to figure out how to bind the dragdrop motion event to some mouse/key combination.

For grins, I tried to delete the <Shift-3> binding like this: 
$text->bind('<Shift-3>');

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but this did nothing.

How can I wrest a mouse/key binding back from Tk::Text?

Thanks

P.S. Again, long ago in a galaxy far away this *used* to work. I have a listbox dragdrop example working just fine in the same application so its not like I can't get dragdrop to work at all.

In reply to make drag drop work in text widget by rdsmithaz

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