Re: AppIcon patch revisited

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

On Saturday, February 10, 2001, at 07:45 AM, Dan Pascu wrote:

> On  9 Feb, Richard Frith-Macdonald wrote: 
> >> btw, why is appicon movement needed under program control (not user  
> >> control)?  
> >  
> > Under OpenStep, they are the same thing ... the user clicks on the appicon 
> > and drags ... the program decides how the appicon should react to that ... 
> > and usually moves the appicon to follow the mouse ... but has the right to 
> > do something different if it wants to. 
>  
> This should be easy. If the app doesn't want it to move, it shouldn't 
> relay the left click back to wmaker. 

But the app doesn't do the relaying ... that's handled by the backend library.
The app (ie the code written by the app developer, not the library code) knows
nothing about window managers and X.

It's important to realise that a GNUstep app is *NOT* an X application - the
application code has absolutely nothing to do with X, and any X interaction
is performed only by a backend library.

Check out the OpenStep or MacOS-X AppKit API ... this is the API that a GNUstep
gui application is written to, not the X API.