[IronPython] Problem: AllowDrop = True --> DragDropregistrationfailed

[J. de Hooge]

Thanks for the info!

 

Jacques

 

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[mailto:users-bounces at lists.ironpython.com] Namens John Lam
Verzonden: Friday, November 18, 2005 3:25 AM
Aan: Discussion of IronPython
Onderwerp: Re: [IronPython] Problem: AllowDrop = True -->
DragDropregistrationfailed

 

MTA is default due to a change in the behavior of the Whidbey CLR. 

 

In earlier versions of the CLR, CoInitializeEx was not called in *most*
cases. So you could tell your thread to enter an STA via a change to
ApartmentState in *most* cases. The default in Whidbey is to put all threads
in the MTA which is more predictable, even at the expense of breaking
applications that manually set the ApartmentState of a thread after
execution has started.

 

You must declare the COM requirements of the startup thread via an STAThread
attribute in your application's Main() method. I'm not sure how attributes
are supported in IP (I've run into this problem in my Ruby bridge - and have
a non-ideal solution to it as well).

 

HTH,

-John

http://www.iunknown.com <http://www.iunknown.com/> 

 

 

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Sent: Thursday, November 17, 2005 9:00 PM
To: users at lists.ironpython.com
Subject: [IronPython] Problem: AllowDrop = True --> DragDrop
registrationfailed

 

Hi,

 

In the past months I've been coding quite extensively using previous
versions of IronPython (upto 0.9.3) and the .NET 2.0 framework beta.

One of the things I've been using a lot is drag&drop.

 

Recently I've downloaded IP 0.9.5 and the "final" .NET 2.0 distribution.

Setting the AllowDrop property of e.g. a Forms.ListView to True now results
in an exception message: DragDrop registration failed.

 

>From the internet I've gathered that I should change the ApartmentState of
my main thread to STA, using an attribute.

But how can I do that from IP? And why is MTA the default, causing this
problem?

 

Or is there a different solution.

Any help appreciated.

 

Thanks

Jacques de Hooge

info at geatec.com

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