A colleague of mine at work had a similar need not too long ago. In our conversations about it, I recall him saying that he looked extensively into the matter and discovered that at the current time, Perl/TK only supports local dnd and remote dnd where the Tk app is is NOT the remote drag source. If he is correct, then you are out of luck.
davidj | [reply] |
It appears that its not supported on windows.
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As long as you're on windows, you can't use OS's drag-n-drop with perlTk, but you can try it from perl+Tcl/Tk, which very similar to perlTk in spirit.
perl+Tcl/Tk allows windows-native widgets, see http://vkonovalov.ru/samp-activex.jpg
Can't comment on how stable it is, because I did not happen to actively use ActiveX from perl.
Best regards,
Courage, the Cowardly Dog
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On Win there exist 3 (yes THREE) mechanisms (as of 1998) for drag and drop. Each one applys in slightly other circumstances. So which one do you want to support? | [reply] |
http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2001/12/11/perltk.html contains a good introduction and also says:
"There are two basic types of DND operations, local (intra-application) and remote (inter-application). Local drops are fully supported, but there is no standard for remote drops. For this reason, this article describes only local DND operations. Note: Perl/Tk supports Sun, XDND, KDE, and Win32 remote DND protocols."
So its sounds as though there is a way. If anyone finds a solution and publishes it as an exmaple it would be a greate help. | [reply] |
