Drag and drop from one PC to the other

[Bruce Dykes]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Bertrand Geston" <bergeston at yahoo.fr>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.python
To: <python-list at python.org>
Sent: Monday, February 04, 2002 20:04
Subject: Drag and drop from one PC to the other


> I would like to know your opinion about this: I have 2 Windows computers
one
> next to the other and I would like to be able to pass object from one to
the
> other really easily. A kind of window open on each computer could be handy
> if the user can paste (by Cut 'n Paste or by Drag 'n Drop) an object in
one
> window and retrieve it from the other computer window. In other words, I
> would like to have a shared and distributed clipboard.
>
> Does it exist already ? Is it feaseable and easy ? I really don't know COM
> or COM+ but I guess that this could be part of the solution. Any opinion
or
> advice is really welcome (just to know how to start or where to look for).

The clipboard viewer in NT4 (at least, it's likely to be true for 98, and
quite possibly up through 2K, ME, and XP as well) has the ability to connect
to clipboards on other MS networked machines.

There are also third party clipboard replacements that offer expanded
functionality.

bkd