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Implementing Drag/Drop onto empty MDI Document Area

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Posted 18 years ago by Marianne
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When nothing is in a tabbed MDI area I would like to be able to drag a file onto the surface of it and respond via standard OLE drag/drop. My attempts so far have failed and I looked in the sample app but don't see it implemented in there either. What I'm doing is: 
            dm.TabbedMdiRootContainer.AllowDrop = true;
            dm.TabbedMdiRootContainer.DragDrop += new DragEventHandler(TabbedMdiRootContainer_DragDrop);
I'm assuming that the TabbedMdiRootContainer is what I want to use but am not entirely positive. Please advise.

------------------------------- Marianne

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Posted 18 years ago by Actipro Software Support - Cleveland, OH, USA
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All you're missing is a DragOver handler. You need to set its event arg's Effect in that. I was able to do drag/drop after adding that.

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Posted 18 years ago by Boyd - Sr. Software Developer, Patterson Consulting, LLC
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It would be more efficient to use the 'DragEnter' event instead of 'DragOver', and it will work the same. DragEnter will only be fired once when the cursor moves over the control, while DragOver constantly fires as the mouse moves.

You would only want to use DragOver if you needed to respond differently for different areas within your control.

Just thought I'd throw that in :)
The latest build of this product (v24.1.0) was released 2 months ago, which was after the last post in this thread.

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