Re: DND for XEmacs 21

Some time ago, Jonathan Harris wrote... |+ | > By the way: how does windos handle a drag (i.e. when is a press a drag)? | | It's up to the application to initiate a drag operation. The win32 user | interface guidlines recommend that the application should initiate a | drag operation when the user clicks and holds the left-button (with or | without modifiers) within selected text. Most applications also initiate | a drag when the right button (button3 in XEmacs) is used in the same | way. Let me pick a nit. Drag is initiated after mouse is moved minimum distance with a button down. | On dropping text, the text should be copied if the Ctrl modifier is held | down and should be moved if Ctrl isn't down. Mod and Shift are ignored. | Some applications display a popup menu when text is dropped with the | right button: the menu offers the user the choice of copying or moving | the text. We probably don't need to bother with this and can just treat | a right-button like a left-button. The button and modifier state is | ignored for file drops. Not exactly. They may have the same meaning for drop targets which are file containers. What does dropping a file on a dired buffer mean? Having a menu displayed on a right-button drop is a big plus. Pie in the sky but the DND abstraction should not deny this. Kirill