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Drag and Drop fails when Emacs window/frame is above top

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From: Jan Djärv <jan.h.d <at> swipnet.se>
To: Paulie Pena IV <paulie4 <at> gmail.com>, 18303-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#18303: Drag and Drop fails when Emacs window/frame is above
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Date: Sun, 07 Sep 2014 19:32:57 +0200

Den 2014-08-20 14:50, Paulie Pena IV skrev:
> If my Emacs window is above the top of my screen (which is how I usually have
> it since I don't care about the title bar, etc.), I cannot drag a file onto
> the top part of the Emacs window/frame. If I try to, I get this error:
> Not an in-range integer, float, or cons of integers
>
> I traced the problem to the "XdndPosition" cond in x-dnd-handle-xdnd, which
> calls x-send-client-message. The "list-to-send" variable has a negative y
> value, which it gets from x-dnd-get-drop-x-y. I think the way to fix this is
> to change x-send-client-message so it accepts negative x/y values, but I'm not
> sure if that's correct.

This has been fixed in the trunk.  x-send-client-message accepted negative x, 
but did not accept negative y.

	Jan D.

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