Re: Drag n drop from another application

Hi Vasilis,

On Fri, 25 Aug 2017 08:21:03 +0000
Vasilis Vlachoudis <[email protected]> wrote:

> Thank you Michael,
> 
> is this the same with the Tkdnd.py module inside tkinter, or it is an
> extension of it?

no, Tkdnd.py is pure Tkinter code and can only handle dnd within one
Tkinter program.
For "real" dnd you will need tkdnd. BTW, iirc there is a problem with
tkdnd-2.6 (which is still the version included with debian and probably
other linux/unix systems). I am not 100% sure, but I believe drops would
only work if the drop target is a direct child of the toplevel window,
which has been fixed with tkdnd-2.8. I never really used tkdnd in a real
application, so it's a little hard to remember exactly, it was something
like this. With tkdnd-2.8 also dragging from Tkinter to the file manager
should work, so if you want to use it, it might be a good idea to
upgrade (although a number of X11 file managers I tested behaved
differently, some accepted the drops from Tk, others wouldn't and pcmanfm
always crashed :)
You can find the latest version at
https://sourceforge.net/projects/tkdnd/files/ ,
compiling should be rather easy, here a simple ./configure && make &&
make install did the job.

Best regards

Michael


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