GUI Scheme Programming Tip: Drag and Drop Capability

Here's a tip - if you're looking to develop a desktop GUI application in Scheme and you need to have drag 'n drop capability, you should be looking into the pasteboard object in PLT's MrEd library.

This took me a while to find, as I made too very poor asumptions:

1. An Editor widgetw would be useful just for text editing
2. A pasteboard had something to do with Cut-And-Paste

Both of these assumptions were wrong, and if I had read through the manual a bit further I would have found the following:

Programs that need a canvas with dragable objects -- The drawing toolbox provides a generic drawing surface for plotting lines and boxes, but many applications need an interactive canvas, where the user can drag and resize individual objects.

Which is just what I wanted.

Luckily, the kind folks on PLT mailing list striaghtened me out in a hurry.