On Wed, 12 Mar 1997, James Frost wrote:
> 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:
>
[...]
Hmm.. I should check Wharf out then :)
it would be instructive (for me!) to add DND to FvwmCDE :)
as for xdrop: i don't think it will work except with XView apps, because
XView has this thing called DTSM (or something like that) which implements
DND for XView apps..
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