It supports the Xdnd and Motif protocols, allowing interoperability with most common applications. Overview Figure 1.
Icon changes during drag to indicate whether a drop can occur is valid.
Cursor is displayed in target to indicate where text will be inserted. The user clicks on a user interface object, drags the mouse elsewhere and releases the mouse. Usually, this is used to trigger moving or copying information from one location to another. The operation that is performed is known as the action . Along with move and copy, another fairly frequent action is that of linking.