32.1.1 OffiX DND

WARNING: If you compile in OffiX, you may not be able to use multiple X displays successfully. If the two servers are from different vendors, the results may be unpredictable.

The OffiX Drag’n’Drop protocol is part of a X API/Widget library created by Cesar Crusius. It is based on X-Atoms and ClientMessage events, and works with any X platform supporting them.

OffiX is supported if ’offix is member of the variable dragdrop-protocols, or the feature ’offix is defined.

Unfortunately it uses it’s own data types. Examples are: File, Files, Exe, Link, URL, MIME. The API tries to choose the right type for the data that is dragged from SXEmacs (well, not yet...).

SXEmacs supports both MIME and URL drags and drops using this API. No application interaction is possible while dragging is in progress.

For information about the OffiX project have a look at http://leb.net/~offix/