[ANN]: TkDND 2.0 alpha 6...

[Georgios Petasis]

Hi all,

There is a new alpha release of TkDND, which can be found at:

http://www.ellogon.org/petasis/index.php?option=com_docman&task=doc_download&gid=57&Itemid=37
http://www.ellogon.org/petasis/index.php?option=com_docman&task=cat_view&gid=31&Itemid=37

This is mainly a bug-fix release (mainly for unix).

This release can be considered stable under windows. All features that
TkDND 2.0 will support are implemented. There are no known bugs for the
windows part and the features supported are text drag/drops, file(s)
drag/drops, outlook messages drops, and drag/drop of any custom types
are allowed, with all data transfer done through byte arrays.

The only reason for characterising the release alpha for windows is the
lack of documention. Apart from this, this release should be considered
final for the windows platform.

Regarding unix, all drag functionality is still missing. Thus, under
this platform this release is still an alpha release.

Regards,

George

[Francois Vogel]

Hi Georgios,

First let me thank you a lot for this very useful package!

I'm using your 1.0 TkDnD package in my Tcl application, and I'm
currently considering the opportunity of upgrading to 2.0.

I have actually a simple first question: what would be the benefit for
me (or for the users of my application) to make the effort of upgrading,
given that:

- version 1.0 works OK in drag/drop files and text (which is what I use
it for)
- version 2.0 has no drag support on Linux (and my app is targeted to
both Windows and Linux)

Second question for you, what are your plans wrt implementing the drag
feature under Linux? Any idea of a roadmap?

Finally, a third question for everybody out there: is there any success
story wrt upgrading from TkDnD 1.0 to 2.0 in your applications?

Thanks,
Francois

[Georgios Petasis]

O/H Francois Vogel έγραψε:

First of all, if tkdnd 1.x works for you, I think you should not
consider updating, until the 2.x version is more feature complete.
Regarding the roadmap, no there is none :-(

Finally, regarding the upgrade from 1.x to 2.x: its true that version
2.0 will have a new API, but a compatibility layer which works for most
frequent cases will be available. At least the demos run unmodified with
version 2.x...

But I don't even know of any success story. I even use version 1.0 in
most of my apps :-)

George

[Francois Vogel]