I am trying to get some control over drag and drop operations in my Linux application(some day will support Windows too). I have been doing a bit of research and still don't know where to start. It seems that GTK has support for doing drag and drop system operations so I am sure what I want to do is possible EXCEPT I don't want to use the default drag behavior of an edit control.
If I select text in an edit control I can drop it in other applications as text and most other applications handle this. I however do not want to use an edit control to set the data that is being dropped in other application. I would like to use a shape, image, button or other component to allow user to initiate the drag operation and I want to set the data as a string type. I dont really know how to access functions of GTK... but I found this article with lots of info. If someone has a few minutes can they take a look and maybe get me in the right direction to implement the desired behavior? Thanks
http://www.compsci.hunter.cuny.edu/~sweiss/course_materials/csci493.70/lecture_notes/GTK_dragndrop.pdfUpdate:
https://github.com/prof7bit/NativeDragDrop seems to be the solution I was looking for! There is issues setting properties with this component in the object inspector so I set the properties at run time. But this allows me to drag a button and drop it in other applications as a string!
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