On Thu, 22 Jul 1999, Kevin Miller wrote:
> On 22/7/99 2:59 pm Geoff Canyon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >Is there a way to implement drag and drop:
> >
> >within a MetaCard project/application?
>
> Only by scripting objects or windows to move. It tends to be fairly
> complex.
>
> >between two MetaCard project/applications?
>
> Only by moving windows around, and then only in the most fangled way.
>
> >between a MetaCard project/application and another application?
>
> No.
>
> >If not, are there plans?
>
> I believe better drag and drop support is on the feature request list.
It is, definitely.
> >I ask this knowing little about the state of
> >drag and drop on the PC, and even less about the state of it on Unix, so
> >if this is impossible because of environmental limitations, I'd be
> >curious to know about that.
>
> Windows supports drag and drop like the MacOS, though its used a little
> less often and is a little less well integrated. UNIX doesn't support it
> AFAIK.
Actually the problem is that there are several incompatible standards
on UNIX and so very few applications support any of them. Blame this
problem on the oxymoronically named "Open Software Foundation" (since
absorbed into "The Open Group) which for years refused to release a
public specification for how drag and drop was implemented in the
"standard" Motif toolkit. Together with the X Consortium and its
idiotic "mechanism not policy" dictum, these organizations set GUI
development on UNIX systems back by about a decade. It's only now
that Linux developers have taken over the mantle of standardization
from these intellectually corrupt organizations that any progress is
being made. The new standard on Linux systems is called "XDND", and
while it doesn't work with Motif apps, it does with apps built on Qt
and GTK (the two biggest alternatives to Motif, other than MetaCard
itself of course ;-) and so is likely to be what MetaCard will
support.
Regards,
Scott
> Regards,
>
> Kevin
>
> >Thanks
> >
> >gc
> >
> >Geoff Canyon [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >"C.D. Caterpillar teaches kids how to read, not how to watch cartoons."
>
> Kevin Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://www.xworlds.com/>
> Cross Worlds Computing, MetaCard Distributors, Custom Development.
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>
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