Chip: Check out the docs for “Managing Pasteboards”. I’ve used this feature only with ALP but ALP uses the same drag and drop events that 4D does so there will be some overlap.
4 bytes could well be a longint representing the process ID where the drag was initiated - that’s a WAG. The bigger payload could be a BLOB of a fair amount of text or perhaps a record that was put into the clipboard when the On drag sequence started. Have you checked the knowlegebase or perhaps looked in the Summit materials? -- Douglas von Roeder 949-910-4084 On Mon, Aug 12, 2019 at 2:06 PM Chip Scheide via 4D_Tech < 4d_tech@lists.4d.com> wrote: > I am dragging and dropping 1 or more records from 1 process onto a > listbox in a second process. > > I see that I can use the pasteboard to mange the data during this > action. > > However....(dragging 1 record) > I am looking at the data types returned by GET PASTEBOARD DATA TYPE > com.4d.private.pid & com.4d.private.Form.Object -- neither of these > makes much sense to me. > > By using GET PASTEBOARD DATA i get a blob which is either > 4 bytes (com.4d.private.pid) > or > 524 bytes (com.4d.private.object.form) > > I do not know what to do with either of these blocks of data... can > someone point me in the right direction. > > The drop area is allowed to accept data from 5 different tables. > I need to be able to differentiate which table the data is from, & > which record(s) were dropped. > > Once I have which ever of the above data types hand, what do I do with > them to extract the needed information. > > Thanks > Chip > > --------------- > Gas is for washing parts > Alcohol is for drinkin' > Nitromethane is for racing > ********************************************************************** > 4D Internet Users Group (4D iNUG) > Archive: http://lists.4d.com/archives.html > Options: https://lists.4d.com/mailman/options/4d_tech > Unsub: mailto:4d_tech-unsubscr...@lists.4d.com > ********************************************************************** ********************************************************************** 4D Internet Users Group (4D iNUG) Archive: http://lists.4d.com/archives.html Options: https://lists.4d.com/mailman/options/4d_tech Unsub: mailto:4d_tech-unsubscr...@lists.4d.com **********************************************************************
