Disabling drag events?

[Ross Burton]

On Fri, 2006-03-10 at 11:11 -0500, Kit Peters wrote:
> Interesting. OK, let me define "drag event," then, and then perhaps
> someone can tell me where I need to look from there, whether it's in
> the X sources or somewhere else.
> 
> I define a drag event to be a motion event (as previously defined by
> Owen Taylor) where throughout the duration of the motion event, a
> button on an input device remains in the pressed state.  
> 
> An example of a drag event would be the event that takes place when I
> click and hold my left mouse button and move it across a line of text
> to highlight it.  Another example of a drag event would be the event
> that takes place when I click on a file icon in Konqueror and drag the
> file icon on top of another file icon. 
> 
> Does this clarify things?

As Owen said, behaviour is implemented at the toolkit level.  You want
to disable dragging in whatever toolkit you are using, be it Qt, GTK,
Motif, or something else.

Ross
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