Receives a string, potentially from another application. Is also understood by some other panes that expect text.
Receives an image on Cocoa and GTK+. The value passed should be a
gp:image
. See Working with images for more information about images.When supplying an image for dragging (that is, including
:image
image
in the plist argument of
drag-pane-object
or in the plist that is returned from the
drop-callback
), the dragging mechanism frees the image (as by
gp:free-image
) when it finishes with it (which will be at some indeterminate time later). If you need to pass an image which you want to use later, you should make a copy of it by
gp:make-sub-image
.
When receiving an image (by calling
drop-object-get-object
with
:image
), the received image should also be freed when you finish with it. However, it will be freed automatically when the pane supplied to
drop-object-get-object
is destroyed, so you do not need to free it explictly if freeing can wait (which is probably true in most cases).
See the example in
examples/capi/choice/list-panel-drag-image.lisp
Receives a list of files. Is understood by other applications such as the Mac OS X Finder and Windows Explorer.
You can also use private formats, named by arbitrary keywords, which will work only in the same Lisp image.
CAPI User Guide (Unix version) - 30 Aug 2011