Eric S. Johansson wrote: > I have a small problem that may be best solved by dragging and dropping > a mail message to an icon. But I'm honestly not sure what the data will > look like from different e-mail clients. Since most of my programming > experience is something a user rarely sees, I'm not even sure where to > start creating a test case. > > I would appreciate pointers to documentation (and yes I did Google > before asking) how to create an icon on a desktop (Macintosh and > Windows) and have that icon act on something which has been dropped on it.
Drag'n'Drop is highly OS-dependand and clearly out of scope for standard-out-of-the-box python. If you are on macintosh, pyobjc and http://www.cocoadev.com/index.pl?DragAndDrop will certainly help. HTH, Diez -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
