On 22 September 2010 13:31, Marco van de Voort wrote: > > No. But it allows you to keep text as text, not as streamed value.
I'll see how it goes, maybe I could store text as text, and binary as binary - this will allow for the least amount of conversions. Plus the storage variable not being used will not be initialized - to reduce memory consumption. I'll experiment further. > If you don't operate much on it, it doesn't matter. But the above sounds > like you do most of the work on text, not binary blobs. Well, that will depend on the application the developer writes, not on what I do or use. > variants support most base Delphi types, afaik including class , interface > and dyn array. Supporting delphi data types is pointless when drag and drop occurs between two applications - hence the reason I am opting for the mime-type standards. This is why I can't believe the stupid drag-n-drop support implemented in Delphi and Kylix. There, the data enters the event handler as a TObject instance, so the VCL and CLX frameworks only support drag-n-drop inside the same application. For external DND, you must revert to external OS API's - using Win32 API under Windows, and no idea what under Kylix. -- Regards, - Graeme - _______________________________________________ fpGUI - a cross-platform Free Pascal GUI toolkit http://opensoft.homeip.net:8080/fpgui/ _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
