Creating a Control that Behaves as a Drop Zone

Use the DROP_ACTION field to specify the action that runs when the user drops a file on the control. The action must be capable of accepting a file argument.

Frequently, a control definition includes both a PUSH_ACTION and DROP_ACTION field. You can use the same action for the push and drop action.

For example, the following control, located in the Personal Applications subpanel, runs the X client xwud, which takes a file argument.

CONTROL Run_xwud
 {
 	CONTAINER_NAME				PerAppsSubpanel
 	CONTAINER_TYPE				SUBPANEL
 	POSITION_HINTS				2
 	ICON							XwudImage
 	PUSH_ACTION					RunXwud
 	DROP_ACTION					RunXwud
 }