It's not (visibly) using the clipboard because it doesn't trash the clipboard contents... where does it go?
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It's up to the application. Typically nothing much happens during dragging, except for working out if the drag is over a suitable drop target. When the item is dropped, the target handles the drop event somehow, but it doesn't have to store anything anywhere.
anon
2010-03-31 14:32:35
But surely the whole point is there's a standard mechanism, so you can drag text from Firefox -> Word, etc?
John
2010-03-31 14:42:51
@John As Preet points out, it is up to Word to ask Firefox for the data somehow.
anon
2010-03-31 14:50:44
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A:
I suspect most applictions will be using COM Drag and drop and this doesn't need a store. The sender just calls a methods on the reciever and it collects the data directly from the sender.
Preet Sangha
2010-03-31 14:33:04