[Tkinter-discuss] Tkinter DnD - Drag and Drop

Michael Foord mike at pcblokes.com
Wed Jul 19 14:53:45 CEST 2006


Michael Lange wrote:
> On Mon, 17 Jul 2006 14:19:04 +0100
> Michael Foord <mike at pcblokes.com> wrote:
>
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>>> I made the same observations. Maybe the problem is that the tkdnd binary is built against an
>>> older version of Tcl/Tk. I currently don't have a windows box running, so I planned to wait
>>> until the unix part of tkdnd2 is fully implemented before I start updating the TkinterDnD module.
>>> The author of tkdnd wrote at
>>>  http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/37c43ef2aeb2de18/d2d03a79b955f3d4?lnk=st&q=tkdnd&rnum=8
>>> that tkdnd2 has a compatibility layer for tkdnd1-code,
>>> so maybe you could try to use tkdnd2 and see how far you get (I have not tried this so far).
>>>   
>>>       
>> Thanks for the reply.
>>
>> Unfortunately it didn't work (for me) when I tried it with tkdnd2.
>>
>> I will have to wait for the update to TkinterDnD. :-)
>>
>>     
>
> Hi Michael,
>
> now I became curios, and started wrapping tkdnd2.0 .
> The Python interface looks good to me, however I could not manage to get everything working.
> On windows dropping files from Explorer works, dragging operations seem to start but I cannot seem to
> figure out how to successfully finish them.
> On linux nothing seems to work.
> I think that probably the problem is not the wrapper, but the usage; the tkdnd2.0 man page is buggy and maybe
> not complete.
> If you want to try it anyway, you can find it at:
>
>     http://www.8ung.at/klappnase/TkinterDnD2/TkinterDnD2.html
>
> , and if you do so, please do not forget to report your experience;-)
>
>   
I certainly will do. All I need is dropping, so I will see how that goes 
and report back.

Thanks

Fuzzyman
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> Regards
>
> Michael
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