wine users - May 2009 - Shared clipboard, drag and drop, Linux <> Wine 1.1.20

Can Wine be set up to allow "drag and drop" between Ubuntu 9.04
Nautilus 2.26.2 file manager and a Windows app running in Wine?

The Windows application is the "Yamaha File Utility" v1.1.0 which
allows MIDI files to be transferred to a Yamaha CLP-150 Clavinova digital piano.
Unfortunately, the software relies on drag and drop for the file transfer.  In
native Windows, I would drag a MIDI file from Windows Explorer and drop it on
the Yamaha File Utility window.  This would then trigger the transfer of the
file to the piano.  There is no other way to add files to the list.

However, this does not seem to work with the app running in Wine.  The Wine File
Manager (winefile) does not seem to allow drag and drop, even when the Wine
"virtual desktop" is used.  I see in the File menu of Wine file
manager there is an option "In Clipboard...", when clicked displays
"Not yet implemented".

Wine version 1.1.20

Any help very appreciated.

You might want to try ReactOS explorer. According to the GSoC wiki
page, it won't be included in Wine because it is written in C++.

http://wiki.winehq.org/SummerOfCode#head-18241c95194e4e1c597bd2923cf296084fc3ba78

Webpage: http://www.foxplanet.de/explorer/

According to its page "Drag & drop in explorer windows partly
implemented"

It seem to only be rated Silver on Wine though...

http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=15945

Gert

Huh. That's weird. Drag-and-drop has always worked for me since at least
version 0.9.x, no matter whether I'm in Nautilus, Thunar, PCManFM etc...

When dragging and dropping, did you try waiting a bit before releasing the mouse
when pointing at your Windows app? You need to wait a bit longer, I believe.
Also try dragging the file to different places in the app - sometimes you will
see different "drop" mouse pointers, it's usually fairly clear to
see when you *can't* drop a file somewhere (I believe the mouse pointerjust
stays the same)