Solaris Common Desktop Environment: User's Guide

To Drag an Appointment from Calendar to Another Application

From Calendar, you can drag an appointment icon to Mailer to mail it to someone or to File Manager to save it in your file system.

To Mailer

  1. Use the Appointment Editor to create an appointment but don't click Insert.

  2. Start Mailer and choose New Message from the Compose menu.

    Make sure both the Appointment Editor and Mailer's Compose window are visible on your screen.

  3. Drag the Drag Appt icon from the Appointment Editor and drop it on Mailer's attachment list.

    The pointer changes to an appointment icon representing the moving file.

    Mailer displays your appointment as a text file in the attachment list.

  4. Compose and address your mail message and send it.

    For more information on using Mailer, see Chapter 8, Using Mailer.

To File Manager

  1. Use the Appointment Editor to create an appointment but don't click Insert.

  2. In an open File Manager window, navigate to a folder where you want to save the appointment in a file.

  3. With both the File Manager window and Calendar Appointment Editor visible on your screen, drag the Drag Appt icon from the Appointment Editor and drop it on the File Manager window.

    The appointment is saved in a text file in the folder where you dropped it.

    For more information about File Manager, see Chapter 5, Managing Files with File Manager .