xmdroptransferstart(3)

NAME

XmDropTransferStart -- A Drag and Drop function that initiates a drop transfer

SYNOPSIS

#include <Xm/DragDrop.h>
Widget XmDropTransferStart(
Widget widget,
ArgList arglist,
Cardinal argcount);

DESCRIPTION

XmDropTransferStart initiates a drop transfer and uses the specified argument list to initialize an XmDropTransfer object. The DropTransfer object can be manipulated with XtSetValues and XtGetValues until the last call to the XmNtransferProc procedure is made. After that point, the result of using the widget pointer is undefined. The DropTransfer object is freed by the toolkit when a transfer is complete.

widget Specifies the ID of the DragContext widget associated with

the transaction

arglist Specifies the argument list

argcount Specifies the number of attribute/value pairs in the argument

list (arglist)

For a complete definition of DropTransfer and its associated resources, see XmDropTransfer(3).

RETURN

Returns the ID of the DropTransfer widget.

RELATED

XmDragContext(3), XmDropTransfer(3), and XmDropTransferAdd(3).

XmDropTransferStart(library call)