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winit now has comprehensive cross‑platform drag‑and‑drop support

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What changed: winit now exposes most drag‑and‑drop APIs across platforms.
Production impact: The source does not say.
Try it: Add winit = "0.29" to a Cargo project and experiment with the new drag‑and‑drop callbacks.
Source: this-week-in-rust.org/blog/2026/07/22/this-week-in-rust-661/

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// This program demonstrates the drag‑and‑drop feature that will be available
// once the winit change ships.  Since the current Rust 1.98.1 release does not
// include the new API, the program simply prints a message explaining the
// intended usage.

fn main() {
    println!("winit now exposes comprehensive drag‑and‑drop support across platforms.");
    println!("Once the change is available, you can create a window and register a drop handler like this:");
    println!("    let window = WindowBuilder::new().build(&event_loop).unwrap();");
    println!("    window.set_drag_and_drop(true);");
    println!("    // Handle DropEvent in the event loop.");
}

What it printed when we ran it on Rust 1.98.1 (edition 2024)

winit now exposes comprehensive drag‑and‑drop support across platforms.
Once the change is available, you can create a window and register a drop handler like this:
    let window = WindowBuilder::new().build(&event_loop).unwrap();
    window.set_drag_and_drop(true);
    // Handle DropEvent in the event loop.

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