Re: Drag-n-Drop in Perl/Tkx

On 19/02/2010 6:05 AM, Konovalov, Vadim (Vadim)** CTR ** wrote:
> I think that "tkdnd" is not packaged with Activeperl distribution
> 5.8.8, and also I very much doubt that it is distributed with other
> newer packages.

tkdnd is not one of the extensions included in the Tkx tkkit in 
ActivePerl.  It is possible to extend the tkkit to include these, as I 
believe you've shown in a later post.

> "tkdnd" does suffice me on both Linux and Windoz, and indeed it was
> not updated for a long time already.... (maybe this is a good sign -
> no need to update :) )

DnD on X11 hasn't changed in years.  I think there is an open request 
for more binary format support on Windows, but again the Win32 api there 
has been pretty stable.

What has been missing is OS X support.  This was recently added by Kevin 
Walzer, but isn't in the mainline yet.  The issue there is he wrote it 
for the new Cocoa Tk port, which we aren't basing ActiveTcl on yet (and 
subsequently the tkkit in ActivePerl's Tkx).  While it's great to see Tk 
fully Cocoa (allows for 64-bit builds and better future readiness), it 
means dropping OS X 10.4 support, which we aren't ready to do yet.

Jeff