drag & drop in a python GUI application

[John Posner]

On 7/2/2010 11:20 AM, Michael Torrie wrote:
> On 07/01/2010 08:57 AM, Alan wrote:
>> I know drag&  drop is not possible with TK.
>
> Is this a Python Tk limitation or a Tk limitation in general?  Google
> suggests that Tk itself supports some form of dnd.
>
>> Which widget could I use for my
>> python application to be able to work with drag&  drop?
>
> PyQt will do drag and drop on all platforms.  GTK does drag and drop on
> Unix/X11, and to a lesser degree Win32--not sure about OS X support.  I
> believe wxWidgets also does some level of dnd on all platforms.

Drag-and-drop *is* quite doable with Tkinter. But it's certainly easier 
in PyQt:

   self.setFlag(G.QGraphicsItem.ItemIsMovable, True)

You can contact me off-list if you'd like to see a drag-and-drop 
application that I first wrote using Tkinter, then reimplemented using PyQt.

HTH,
John