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List:       lyx-devel
Subject:    Re: Drag-n-drop image files (QT)
From:       Angus Leeming <leeming () lyx ! org>
Date:       2005-01-28 9:24:35
Message-ID: ctd07c$ggo$10 () sea ! gmane ! org
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Johnathan Burchill wrote:

> Howdy,

Howdy, Johnathan. It's good to have you back.

> A colleague asked me if there was anything that MS word could do well,
> that LyX couldn't, and all I could think of was drag-n-dropping image
> files into the document. That got me to thinking what it would take to
> implement it in LyX. Here's one solution, albeit somewhat naive perhaps,
> as I've not been hacking LyX for quite some time, so there may be
> unaccounted side-effects.

[snip]

> I've patched 1.3.5-qt (3.3.3) for drag-n-drop of graphics files, and it
> works great. Also have a patch for 1.4.0 cvs, but it's buggy, and I'm not
> sure whether it's my doing or just a result of the current state of cvs.
> 
> In 1.3.5, the image is placed at the cursor, already showing, and
> clipped. But in 1.4.0, the image is always inserted at the top of the
> document, and there are bizarre redraws with multiple images (e.g. some
> are missing until you resize the window a certain way).

This smacks of broken cursor-related stuff. Not your fault.

> Is anyone working on dnd image support?

Only you ;-)

> The 1.4.0 current cvs patch follows.

I'll comment on it when I've had time to digest it.

> Let me know if you want the patch for 1.3.5.

Jean-Marc's world.

-- 
Angus

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