Re: [patch] enhanced mac drag-n-drop

[Jan D.]

> "Sean O'Rourke" <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > "Jan D." <address@hidden> writes:
> > > To make this more general, I think you should use or generalize the
> > > defcustom variables in x-dnd.el so that Emacs customizations in this
> > > area becomes available on several platforms.
> >
> > x-dnd-known-types, x-dnd-types-alist, and x-dnd-default-test-function
> > are useless, since they deal with xdnd protocol specifics, and I
> > handle character encodings at the C level.  But the rest of the file
> > looks like quite an improvement over my simple handler, so I'll look
> > at creating a mac analog to the x-specific parts.
>
> It might be useful to look at what the w32 code does. I recall finding
> it difficult to use much of x-dnd.el when I rewrote DND support on
> w32, but I did manage to use enough of it to give a reasonably
> consistent interface between w32 and X I think.

We should break out what you can use in a general dnd.el file.  The 
x-dnd.el currently contains both general DND handling and protocol 
specifics. I'll look at what the w32 code uses and try to generalize it 
more.

        Jan D.