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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 09, 2001
Filed:
Jul. 17, 1998
Brian Owen Wood, Rochester, MN (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A method and a shell extension computer program product for implementing drag and drop operations for large objects without blocking an operating system interface of the computer system. Monitoring for a drop operation by an application is performed by an operating system interface shell. Responsive to an identified drop operation, a transfer structure is sent to the application by the shell extension program. The transfer structure includes a destination directory. Responsive to the application receiving the transfer structure, the data object is transferred to the destination directory and the operating system interface shell is bypassed during the data object transfer.