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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.programmer
- Path: sparky!uunet!psinntp!kripalu!harit
- From: harit@kripalu.com
- Subject: Re: Drag and Drop to App Icon question
- Message-ID: <1992Dec18.170729.324@uunet!cbmvax!xmws!kripalu>
- Sender: harit@uunet!cbmvax!xmws!kripalu
- Reply-To: harit@kripalu.com
- Organization: Kripalu Center
- References: <1992Dec17.072147.15264@netcom.com>
- Date: Fri, 18 Dec 92 17:07:29 GMT
- Lines: 36
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- In article <1992Dec17.072147.15264@netcom.com> gordie@yamanote.dolphin.com
- (Gordie Freedman) writes:
- > I'd like to have an app that accepts a drag and drop operation from something
- > in the workspace browser onto the Icon of my running application. I
- essentially
- > want to get the path name of the object dropped.
- >
- > More clearly, I start up my app, it just displays a menu, no windows,
- although
- > the App icon is displayed. I then drag a file out of the workspace browser
- onto
- > the App icon, and I want the app to get notified and be able to query the
- > filename. Of coursse I also want to do this for directories as well.
- >
- > Can this be done, or do I need a window (or miniwindow) to drop the file
- onto?
- > Any pointers to coding examples or Digi Lib docs that do this?
- >
- > Thanks in advance (Nextmail is fine)
- >
- > --
- > Gordie Freedman gordie@yamanote.dolphin.com -> NextMail encouraged
- > (Disclaimer: Opinions expressed are my own and represent no one else.)
- >
-
- Under 3.0 if the user does a COMMAND drag to the application icon you will get
- notified by the standard messages for opening a file as if the user double
- clicked on the file and your application was the owning application. This way
- you can COMMAND drag any file to Edit.app and look at it.
-
-
- --
- Michael Allen Latta
- Kripalu Center
- harit@kripalu.com
- (413)448-3288
-