Drag and drop with selection

blogan has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I'm looking for a way to implement drag and drop of multiple items. I've seen Tk::DragDrop and Tk::DropSite and played with the demo. It still seems like I'm playing with individual drawings. Ideally, what I would like is to have something that I could select multiple items, have a context menu if I right-click on a item or group of items, drag multiple items, etc. Similar to how some file managers behave. However, all the file managers I've found that use Perl/Tk mostly use just text lists. Or do I just need to bite the bullet and implement the selection and context-menus myself?

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Re: Drag and drop with selection by Courage (Parson) on May 27, 2005 at 17:20 UTC
Speaking about drag-n-drop with Tk and file managers, you're probably have in mind drag-and-drop with non-Tk applications. This is not possible with perl/Tk, you must use Tcl-Tk CPAN module. See Perl is able to deal with Drag-n-Drop within Tk and another applications for details.	[reply]
Re: Drag and drop with selection by japhy (Canon) on May 28, 2005 at 04:10 UTC
I've implemented a multi-item d-n-d in Gtk2, but I'm not sure how translatable to Tk that is. Jeff `japhy` Pinyan, P.L., P.M., P.O.D, X.S.: Perl, regex, and `perl` hacker How can we ever be the sold short or the cheated, we who for every service have long ago been overpaid? ~~ Meister Eckhart	[reply]
Re^2: Drag and drop with selection by blogan (Monk) on May 31, 2005 at 17:13 UTC
I would also be interested in seeing this. I'm not too picky on the library I'll be using.	[reply]
Re: Drag and drop with selection by scmason (Monk) on May 27, 2005 at 23:07 UTC
I wrote a file manager in perl once. What I did was place 'clickable icons' on a canvas (which was really a subclassed label). When you right clicked on these 'icons' you could select 'copy to', 'move to', 'delete' etc. I never implemented drag and drop. I did plan to though. I was going to use tk's tell function to do it. Essentially, I was going to TK's drag and drop along with tell pass enough information to move/copy/delete files. The problem I found was that in order to make it work right, and feel right to the user, I would have to construct a lot of the features/feels myself. In the end, it would have seemed like a MUNGed up hack. You can check out the 'clickable icon' i mentioned from the source here: Perlbox - Desktop Good luck. Keep us posted on how you do. "Never take yourself too seriously, because everyone knows that fat birds dont fly" -FLC	[reply]


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