Re: Drag-and-drop from Windows Explorer?

<korax1214@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> I've recently used programs which accept files or folders dragged from
> another window and dropped onto the application (e.g. this is one way
> of adding files to Nero Burning ROM). However, Delphi (6, PE) only
> seems to support dropping objects dragged from elsewhere in the same
> application.
>
> I've searched the help files (the new, improved ones I downloaded last
> year) and they don't seem to contain any useful advice.
>
> Any pointers? (If that was a pun it wasn't intended...)

The VirtualTreeview has two drag&drop modes: Delphi-compatible and
Windows/Explorer-compatible. The documentation was somewhat scathing
about this IIRC. I imagine there is some explanation there.

Groetjes,
Maarten Wiltink


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