File-drop area for JWM or Trayicons

[MU]

You can drag and drop files from Rox-filer to a roxapp.
A rox-app is a script, that can do whatever you like with them, you could for example convert them with the comandlineprogram "lame" from wav to mp3.

You also can drop links or pictures from your webbrowser


But often, you might wish, you could drag to the taskbar, as the roxapps are hidden by other windows.

So install this Dotpup (34 kb):
http://dotpups.de/dotpups/File_Managers/MU-trayicon.pup
REQUIRES:
http://dotpups.de/dotpups/System_Utilities/getdir.pup

It automatically adds a new icon to the JWM-tray, if you add these lines to /root/.jwm-tray:

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		<Swallow name="mu_trayicon">
			mu_trayicon
		</Swallow>

Or simply run it from the dotpups-menu.
If you use Icewm or other desktops supporting trayicons, simply start it from the dotpups-menu, too.

The icon looks like this:




If you click on it, the Drop-area opens:




When you drop some files, a "example-script" is run, it is only leafpad displaying the selected names:




You can edit
/usr/local/MU-trayicon/resource/drag/action1
to add custom comands instead of running leafpad.

If you want to use more than one icon, you must copy all to a new folder, and rename the two files mu_trayicon and mu_trayarea , to avoid confusion, and alter the dnd.rc -files correspondingly.

Sourcecode is included, too, it is based on my Drag'n'Drop-icons I presented some weeks ago.

Mark