Cleanups/renaming of EXTERNAL_TO_C_STRING and friends -------------------- ChangeLog entries follow: -------------------- modules/ChangeLog addition: 2010-02-05 Ben Wing <ben@xemacs.org> * postgresql/postgresql.c: * postgresql/postgresql.c (CHECK_LIVE_CONNECTION): * postgresql/postgresql.c (Fpq_connectdb): * postgresql/postgresql.c (Fpq_connect_start): * postgresql/postgresql.c (Fpq_lo_import): * postgresql/postgresql.c (Fpq_lo_export): * ldap/eldap.c (Fldap_open): * ldap/eldap.c (Fldap_search_basic): * ldap/eldap.c (Fldap_add): * ldap/eldap.c (Fldap_modify): * ldap/eldap.c (Fldap_delete): * canna/canna_api.c (Fcanna_initialize): * canna/canna_api.c (Fcanna_store_yomi): * canna/canna_api.c (Fcanna_parse): * canna/canna_api.c (Fcanna_henkan_begin): EXTERNAL_TO_C_STRING returns its argument instead of storing it in a parameter, and is renamed to EXTERNAL_TO_ITEXT. Similar things happen to related macros. See entry in src/ChangeLog. More Mule-izing of postgresql.c. Extract out common code between `pq-connectdb' and `pq-connect-start'. Fix places that signal an error string using a formatted string to instead follow the standard and have a fixed reason followed by the particular error message stored as one of the frobs. src/ChangeLog addition: 2010-02-05 Ben Wing <ben@xemacs.org> * console-msw.c (write_string_to_mswindows_debugging_output): * console-msw.c (Fmswindows_message_box): * console-x.c (x_perhaps_init_unseen_key_defaults): * console.c: * database.c (dbm_get): * database.c (dbm_put): * database.c (dbm_remove): * database.c (berkdb_get): * database.c (berkdb_put): * database.c (berkdb_remove): * database.c (Fopen_database): * device-gtk.c (gtk_init_device): * device-msw.c (msprinter_init_device_internal): * device-msw.c (msprinter_default_printer): * device-msw.c (msprinter_init_device): * device-msw.c (sync_printer_with_devmode): * device-msw.c (Fmsprinter_select_settings): * device-x.c (sanity_check_geometry_resource): * device-x.c (Dynarr_add_validified_lisp_string): * device-x.c (x_init_device): * device-x.c (Fx_put_resource): * device-x.c (Fx_valid_keysym_name_p): * device-x.c (Fx_set_font_path): * dialog-msw.c (push_lisp_string_as_unicode): * dialog-msw.c (handle_directory_dialog_box): * dialog-msw.c (handle_file_dialog_box): * dialog-x.c (dbox_descriptor_to_widget_value): * editfns.c (Fformat_time_string): * editfns.c (Fencode_time): * editfns.c (Fset_time_zone_rule): * emacs.c (make_argc_argv): * emacs.c (Fdump_emacs): * emodules.c (emodules_load): * eval.c: * eval.c (maybe_signal_error_1): * event-msw.c (Fdde_alloc_advise_item): * event-msw.c (mswindows_dde_callback): * event-msw.c (mswindows_wnd_proc): * fileio.c (report_error_with_errno): * fileio.c (Fsysnetunam): * fileio.c (Fdo_auto_save): * font-mgr.c (extract_fcapi_string): * font-mgr.c (Ffc_config_app_font_add_file): * font-mgr.c (Ffc_config_app_font_add_dir): * font-mgr.c (Ffc_config_filename): * frame-gtk.c (gtk_set_frame_text_value): * frame-gtk.c (gtk_create_widgets): * frame-msw.c (mswindows_init_frame_1): * frame-msw.c (mswindows_set_title_from_ibyte): * frame-msw.c (msprinter_init_frame_3): * frame-x.c (x_set_frame_text_value): * frame-x.c (x_set_frame_properties): * frame-x.c (start_drag_internal_1): * frame-x.c (x_cde_transfer_callback): * frame-x.c (x_create_widgets): * glyphs-eimage.c (my_jpeg_output_message): * glyphs-eimage.c (jpeg_instantiate): * glyphs-eimage.c (gif_instantiate): * glyphs-eimage.c (png_instantiate): * glyphs-eimage.c (tiff_instantiate): * glyphs-gtk.c (xbm_instantiate_1): * glyphs-gtk.c (gtk_xbm_instantiate): * glyphs-gtk.c (gtk_xpm_instantiate): * glyphs-gtk.c (gtk_xface_instantiate): * glyphs-gtk.c (cursor_font_instantiate): * glyphs-gtk.c (gtk_redisplay_widget): * glyphs-gtk.c (gtk_widget_instantiate_1): * glyphs-gtk.c (gtk_add_tab_item): * glyphs-msw.c (mswindows_xpm_instantiate): * glyphs-msw.c (bmp_instantiate): * glyphs-msw.c (mswindows_resource_instantiate): * glyphs-msw.c (xbm_instantiate_1): * glyphs-msw.c (mswindows_xbm_instantiate): * glyphs-msw.c (mswindows_xface_instantiate): * glyphs-msw.c (mswindows_redisplay_widget): * glyphs-msw.c (mswindows_widget_instantiate): * glyphs-msw.c (add_tree_item): * glyphs-msw.c (add_tab_item): * glyphs-msw.c (mswindows_combo_box_instantiate): * glyphs-msw.c (mswindows_widget_query_string_geometry): * glyphs-x.c (x_locate_pixmap_file): * glyphs-x.c (xbm_instantiate_1): * glyphs-x.c (x_xbm_instantiate): * glyphs-x.c (extract_xpm_color_names): * glyphs-x.c (x_xpm_instantiate): * glyphs-x.c (x_xface_instantiate): * glyphs-x.c (autodetect_instantiate): * glyphs-x.c (safe_XLoadFont): * glyphs-x.c (cursor_font_instantiate): * glyphs-x.c (x_redisplay_widget): * glyphs-x.c (Fchange_subwindow_property): * glyphs-x.c (x_widget_instantiate): * glyphs-x.c (x_tab_control_redisplay): * glyphs.c (pixmap_to_lisp_data): * gui-x.c (menu_separator_style_and_to_external): * gui-x.c (add_accel_and_to_external): * gui-x.c (button_item_to_widget_value): * hpplay.c (player_error_internal): * hpplay.c (play_sound_file): * hpplay.c (play_sound_data): * intl.c (Fset_current_locale): * lisp.h: * menubar-gtk.c (gtk_xemacs_set_accel_keys): * menubar-msw.c (populate_menu_add_item): * menubar-msw.c (populate_or_checksum_helper): * menubar-x.c (menu_item_descriptor_to_widget_value_1): * nt.c (init_user_info): * nt.c (get_long_basename): * nt.c (nt_get_resource): * nt.c (init_mswindows_environment): * nt.c (get_cached_volume_information): * nt.c (mswindows_readdir): * nt.c (read_unc_volume): * nt.c (mswindows_stat): * nt.c (mswindows_getdcwd): * nt.c (mswindows_executable_type): * nt.c (Fmswindows_short_file_name): * ntplay.c (nt_play_sound_file): * objects-gtk.c: * objects-gtk.c (gtk_valid_color_name_p): * objects-gtk.c (gtk_initialize_font_instance): * objects-gtk.c (gtk_font_list): * objects-msw.c (font_enum_callback_2): * objects-msw.c (parse_font_spec): * objects-x.c (x_parse_nearest_color): * objects-x.c (x_valid_color_name_p): * objects-x.c (x_initialize_font_instance): * objects-x.c (x_font_instance_truename): * objects-x.c (x_font_list): * objects-xlike-inc.c (XFUN): * objects-xlike-inc.c (xft_find_charset_font): * process-nt.c (mswindows_report_winsock_error): * process-nt.c (nt_create_process): * process-nt.c (get_internet_address): * process-nt.c (nt_open_network_stream): * process-unix.c: * process-unix.c (allocate_pty): * process-unix.c (get_internet_address): * process-unix.c (unix_canonicalize_host_name): * process-unix.c (unix_open_network_stream): * realpath.c: * select-common.h (lisp_data_to_selection_data): * select-gtk.c (symbol_to_gtk_atom): * select-gtk.c (atom_to_symbol): * select-msw.c (symbol_to_ms_cf): * select-msw.c (mswindows_register_selection_data_type): * select-x.c (symbol_to_x_atom): * select-x.c (x_atom_to_symbol): * select-x.c (hack_motif_clipboard_selection): * select-x.c (Fx_store_cutbuffer_internal): * sound.c (Fplay_sound_file): * sound.c (Fplay_sound): * sound.h (sound_perror): * sysdep.c: * sysdep.c (qxe_allocating_getcwd): * sysdep.c (qxe_execve): * sysdep.c (copy_in_passwd): * sysdep.c (qxe_getpwnam): * sysdep.c (qxe_ctime): * sysdll.c (dll_open): * sysdll.c (dll_function): * sysdll.c (dll_variable): * sysdll.c (search_linked_libs): * sysdll.c (dll_error): * sysfile.h: * sysfile.h (PATHNAME_CONVERT_OUT_TSTR): * sysfile.h (PATHNAME_CONVERT_OUT_UTF_8): * sysfile.h (PATHNAME_CONVERT_OUT): * sysfile.h (LISP_PATHNAME_CONVERT_OUT): * syswindows.h (ITEXT_TO_TSTR): * syswindows.h (LOCAL_FILE_FORMAT_TO_TSTR): * syswindows.h (TSTR_TO_LOCAL_FILE_FORMAT): * syswindows.h (LOCAL_FILE_FORMAT_TO_INTERNAL_MSWIN): * syswindows.h (LISP_LOCAL_FILE_FORMAT_MAYBE_URL_TO_TSTR): * text.h: * text.h (eicpy_ext_len): * text.h (enum new_dfc_src_type): * text.h (EXTERNAL_TO_ITEXT): * text.h (GET_STRERROR): * tooltalk.c (check_status): * tooltalk.c (Fadd_tooltalk_message_arg): * tooltalk.c (Fadd_tooltalk_pattern_attribute): * tooltalk.c (Fadd_tooltalk_pattern_arg): * win32.c (tstr_to_local_file_format): * win32.c (mswindows_lisp_error_1): * win32.c (mswindows_report_process_error): * win32.c (Fmswindows_shell_execute): * win32.c (mswindows_read_link_1): Changes involving external/internal format conversion, mostly code cleanup and renaming. 1. Eliminate the previous macros like LISP_STRING_TO_EXTERNAL that stored its result in a parameter. The new version of LISP_STRING_TO_EXTERNAL returns its result through the return value, same as the previous NEW_LISP_STRING_TO_EXTERNAL. Use the new-style macros throughout the code. 2. Rename C_STRING_TO_EXTERNAL and friends to ITEXT_TO_EXTERNAL, in keeping with overall naming rationalization involving Itext and related types. Macros involved in previous two: EXTERNAL_TO_C_STRING -> EXTERNAL_TO_ITEXT EXTERNAL_TO_C_STRING_MALLOC -> EXTERNAL_TO_ITEXT_MALLOC SIZED_EXTERNAL_TO_C_STRING -> SIZED_EXTERNAL_TO_ITEXT SIZED_EXTERNAL_TO_C_STRING_MALLOC -> SIZED_EXTERNAL_TO_ITEXT_MALLOC C_STRING_TO_EXTERNAL -> ITEXT_TO_EXTERNAL C_STRING_TO_EXTERNAL_MALLOC -> ITEXT_TO_EXTERNAL_MALLOC LISP_STRING_TO_EXTERNAL LISP_STRING_TO_EXTERNAL_MALLOC LISP_STRING_TO_TSTR C_STRING_TO_TSTR -> ITEXT_TO_TSTR TSTR_TO_C_STRING -> TSTR_TO_ITEXT The following four still return their values through parameters, since they have more than one value to return: C_STRING_TO_SIZED_EXTERNAL -> ITEXT_TO_SIZED_EXTERNAL LISP_STRING_TO_SIZED_EXTERNAL C_STRING_TO_SIZED_EXTERNAL_MALLOC -> ITEXT_TO_SIZED_EXTERNAL_MALLOC LISP_STRING_TO_SIZED_EXTERNAL_MALLOC Sometimes additional casts had to be inserted, since the old macros played strange games and completely defeated the type system of the store params. 3. Rewrite many places where direct calls to TO_EXTERNAL_FORMAT occurred with calls to one of the convenience macros listed above, or to make_extstring(). 4. Eliminate SIZED_C_STRING macros (they were hardly used, anyway) and use a direct call to TO_EXTERNAL_FORMAT or TO_INTERNAL_FORMAT. 4. Use LISP_PATHNAME_CONVERT_OUT in many places instead of something like LISP_STRING_TO_EXTERNAL(..., Qfile_name). 5. Eliminate some temporary variables that are no longer necessary now that we return a value rather than storing it into a variable. 6. Some Mule-izing in database.c. 7. Error functions: -- A bit of code cleanup in maybe_signal_error_1. -- Eliminate report_file_type_error; it's just an alias for signal_error_2 with params in a different order. -- Fix some places in the hostname-handling code that directly inserted externally-retrieved error strings into the supposed ASCII "reason" param instead of doing the right thing and sticking text descriptive of what was going on in "reason" and putting the external message in a frob. 8. Use Ascbyte instead of CIbyte in process-unix.c and maybe one or two other places. 9. Some code cleanup in copy_in_passwd() in sysdep.c. 10. Fix a real bug due to accidental variable shadowing in tstr_to_local_file_format() in win32.c.

@c -*-texinfo-*-
@c This is part of the XEmacs Lisp Reference Manual.
@c Copyright (C) 1998 Oliver Graf <ograf@fga.de>
@c Original reference is (c) 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
@c See the file lispref.texi for copying conditions.
@setfilename ../../info/dragndrop.texi
@node Drag and Drop, Modes, Scrollbars, Top
@chapter Drag and Drop
@cindex drag and drop

@emph{WARNING}: the Drag'n'Drop API is still under development and the
interface may change! The current implementation is considered experimental.

  Drag'n'drop is a way to transfer information between multiple applications.
To do this several GUIs define their own protocols. Examples are CDE, Motif,
KDE, MSWindows, GNOME, and many more. To catch all these protocols, XEmacs
provides a generic API.

One prime idea behind the API is to use a data interface that is
transparent for all systems. The author thinks that this is best
archived by using URL and MIME data, cause any internet enabled system
must support these for email already. XEmacs also already provides
powerful interfaces to support these types of data (tm and w3).

@menu
* Supported Protocols:: Which low-level protocols are supported.
* Drop Interface::      How XEmacs handles a drop from another application.
* Drag Interface::      Calls to initiate a drag from XEmacs.
@end menu

@node Supported Protocols
@section Supported Protocols

The current release of XEmacs only support a small set of Drag'n'drop
protocols. Some of these only support limited options available in the API.

@menu
* CDE dt::              Common Desktop Environment used on suns.
* MSWindows OLE::       Mr. Gates way of live.
* Loose ends::          The other protocols.
@end menu

@node CDE dt
@subsection CDE dt
@cindex CDE dt

CDE stands for Common Desktop Environment. It is based on the Motif
widget library. It's drag'n'drop protocol is also an abstraction of the
Motif protocol (so it might be possible, that XEmacs will also support
the Motif protocol soon).

CDE has three different types: file, buffer, and text. XEmacs only uses
file and buffer drags. The API will disallow full URL drags, only file
method URLs are passed through.

Buffer drags are always converted to plain text.

@node MSWindows OLE
@subsection MSWindows OLE
@cindex MSWindows OLE

Only allows file drags and drops.

@node Loose ends
@subsection Loose ends

The following protocols will be supported soon: Xdnd, Motif, Xde (if I
get some specs).

In particular Xdnd will be one of the protocols that can benefit from
the XEmacs API, cause it also uses MIME types to encode dragged data.

@node Drop Interface
@section Drop Interface
@cindex drop
@cindex Drop API

For each activated low-level protocol, an internal routine will catch
incoming drops and convert them to a dragdrop-drop type
misc-user-event.

This misc-user-event has its function argument set to
@code{dragdrop-drop-dispatch} and the object contains the data of the drop
(converted to URL/MIME specific data). This function will search the variable
@code{experimental-dragdrop-drop-functions} for a function that can handle the
dropped data.

To modify the drop behavior, the user can modify the variable
@code{experimental-dragdrop-drop-functions}. Each element of this list
specifies a possible handler for dropped data. The first one that can handle
the data will return @code{t} and exit. Another possibility is to set a
extent-property with the same name. Extents are checked prior to the
variable.

The customization group @code{drag-n-drop} shows all variables of user
interest.

@node Drag Interface
@section Drag Interface
@cindex drag
@cindex Drag API

This describes the drag API (not implemented yet).