On Wed, 12 Mar 1997, Tim Phipps wrote:
> Is Drag-n-drop going to be supported. It's the only thing I miss from
> dtwm. I have an Fvwm buttons at the bottom of the screen that could be
> made to look just like the dtwm front-panel but it would be really nice
> to be able to drag a file over to the mailbox icon and have a compose
> window pop up with the file as a MIME attachment. I don't care about
> run-time customization or CDE fluff but darg-n drop would be great.
>
> If you can't do drag-n drop easily do you know of any program that will
> create a window which is a drag-n-drop drop zone?
You can actually use the Wharf module which comes with the afterstep
window manager (a fvwm1 based hack which has neXt step look and feel)
which supports drag 'n drop. Although useable with fvwm2, it is based on
the fvwm1.x, so you have to fiddle a bit with the oonfiguration file to
get it working.
It is available in the AfterStep package from
http://www.afterstep.edoc.com/
There is also a small utility called xdrop available which may be of use,
but I'm not sure if the drag 'n drop works under anything apart from
OpenWindows. The author's email address is:
mrd_at_ecs.soton.ac.uk (I'm not sure if he's still here though)
James Frost
o 34 Blenheim Gardens, Highfield, Soton, S017 3RQ
o Tel: (01703) 583 717
o
http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~jaf195
o jaf195_at_ecs.soton.ac.uk
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Received on Wed Mar 12 1997 - 06:11:44 GMT