[Gretl-devel] Re: drop&drag not working in the "swallowed" console area

On Thu, 2 Dec 2021, Sven Schreiber wrote: > (on Windows at least) I'm observing that dragging a gretl file (gdt, > inp) onto the gretl window doesn't work if it's on the > embedded/swallowed console area. This isn't a big deal... There's no sense in dropping a file onto the console area, is there? I mean, nothing that gretl could reasonably do with a file of any kind in that context.

> but I'm also seeing that the cursor (mouse pointer) changes into the > "drop here" mode, as if it were allowed. But then nothing happens. > (Dropping into the usual main window area still works fine.) On Linux, if you attempt to drop something into the gretl console you see it "fly back" to where it came from, a clear visual indication that it's not going to work. Not sure about macOS, hopefully I can try it soon.