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From: tpm@eng.cam.ac.uk (tim marsland)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.news
Subject: Using the FileManager with NeWS
Keywords: OpenWindows XNeWS FileManager
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Date: 11 Apr 90 16:35:02 GMT
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Organization: Cambridge University Engineering Department, UK
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Hi.  We're trying to use icons from the FileManager with a NeWS client
(4.0.3c, OpenWindows 1.0fcs).  Specifically we're trying to get the
pathname of file when the cursor-icon that represents it is dropped onto a
NeWS canvas.  So far, despite valiant efforts, we've managed to detect a
GrabEnterNotify sent to the canvas, but its /Action field is simply an
integer.  Presumably we have to register an interest with the FileManager
to tell it that we`re prepared to handle the drop, but we can find no
mention of how to do this (or anything else to do with using the
FileManager in this way!) in the documentation.

Has anyone managed to make a NeWS client interact properly with the
FileManager?  Please mail me, and I'll post a summary.

tim marsland

P.S. Anyone seen a [good] class browser for XNeWS? .. it's really very
     tiring when trying to understand the behaviour of a class hierarchy.