Mark Kimes wrote in a message to George Staikos:

 > GS>  I've gotten as far as determining when my container is being dragged
 > GS>  over, and when something is dropped on it, but I can't seem to hack
 > GS>  out the code to create the icon for it when it is dropped.

 >MK> Simply insert the desired record into the container.  Look
 >MK> up CM_ALLOCRECORD and CM_INSERTRECORD in the online
 >MK> reference.

 GS>   That's the problem.  I've read the docs, even printed them out, and I
 GS>   just can't get them to work. The main problem is getting the pointer
 GS>   to the drop buffer transferred to another pointer so I can insert it..

MK> Can you insert a record?  If so, you already know how to do
MK> it; you're just trying to do something else.

MK> You allocate a record, fill it, and insert it.  Ain't no
MK> "transferring pointers."  That tell you what you need?

  I need to know WHAT the item is that's being dropped.  I know that mp2
  during CN_DROP contains a pointer to a drag buffer, but I can't transfer
  the RECORDCORE in that to a RECORDCORE to be inserted into the container.

TTYL,
  George     (George.Staikos{at}bullseye.tvk.tsoft.net)

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