Re: [AD] drag and drop win32

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At 05:03 PM 12/11/2003 -0700, you wrote:
On November 12, 2003 06:39 am, aj wrote:
> >>>It would probably also be useful to support drag and drop of other
> >>>things, such as bitmaps or text.
> >>
> >>it works by passing a filename.
> >>are you talking about clip-board stuff....
> >>thats something else.
> >
> >Yes - you can drag and drop clipboard items; for example, a block of text
> >from Word can be draged and dropped into another app.
>
> cool.
>
> do you know how to do it ?
>
> do you have a use for it ?
>
> is it likely that it is useful to allegro users ?

Not for games.. Maybe for tools. But that doesn't need to be in allegro. just
use win_get_window() and handle the stuff yourself..


how do you know when a drag and drop operation occurs, (usually the allegro wnd is passed a WM_ msg)
so it has to be coded into the allegro WM_ msg handler switch





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