void wxDataFormat::PrepareFormats()
{
// VZ: GNOME included in RedHat 6.1 uses the MIME types below and not the
- // atoms STRING and file:ALL as the old code was
+ // atoms STRING and file:ALL as the old code was, but normal X apps
+ // use STRING for text selection when transfering the data via
+ // clipboard, for example, so do use STRING for now (GNOME apps will
+ // probably support STRING as well for compatibility anyhow), but use
+ // text/uri-list for file dnd because compatibility is not important
+ // here (with whom?)
if (!g_textAtom)
- g_textAtom = gdk_atom_intern( "text/plain", FALSE );
+ g_textAtom = gdk_atom_intern( "STRING" /* "text/plain" */, FALSE );
if (!g_pngAtom)
g_pngAtom = gdk_atom_intern( "image/png", FALSE );
if (!g_fileAtom)
// "file:" as far as I see) delimited by "\r\n" of total length size
// (I wonder what happens if the file has '\n' in its filename??)
wxString filename;
- for ( const char *p = (const char *)buf; *p; p++ )
+ for ( const char *p = (const char *)buf; ; p++ )
{
- if ( *p == '\r' && *(p+1) == '\n' )
+ // some broken programs (testdnd GTK+ sample!) omit the trailing
+ // "\r\n", so check for '\0' explicitly here instead of doing it in
+ // the loop statement to account for it
+ if ( (*p == '\r' && *(p+1) == '\n') || !*p )
{
- static const int lenPrefix = 5; // strlen("file:")
+ size_t lenPrefix = 5; // strlen("file:")
if ( filename.Left(lenPrefix).MakeLower() == _T("file:") )
{
- filename.erase(0, lenPrefix);
+ // sometimes the syntax is "file:filename", sometimes it's
+ // URL-like: "file://filename" - deal with both
+ if ( filename[lenPrefix] == _T('/') &&
+ filename[lenPrefix + 1] == _T('/') )
+ {
+ // skip the slashes
+ lenPrefix += 2;
+ }
+
+ AddFile(filename.c_str() + lenPrefix);
+ filename.Empty();
+ }
+ else
+ {
+ wxLogDebug(_T("Unsupported URI '%s' in wxFileDataObject"),
+ filename.c_str());
}
- AddFile(filename);
- filename.Empty();
+ if ( !*p )
+ break;
// skip '\r'
p++;