Mike68k
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I'm doing a little development on my app. Just picked it up again after almost a year of hiatus since last release (it's been an eventful time..).
Anyway, I want to add some features to it that involve allowing the user to drag and drop an item from the finder (e.g. an application) into the window of my program and then do something with it and I'm looking for some direction on what area of the toolbox or Inside Macintosh to look into for this. I've been using Inside Macintosh for the better part of a year of developing (it aint much, I know, but the point is I'm not a complete noob to looking stuff up in there) but couldn't find anything obvious about this variety of 'drag and drop.' I found a bunch of 'drag and drop' related to AOCE - Apple Open Collaboration Environment and related Catalog stuff -- I admittedly didn't read through every bit of the possible parts but it just seems to be speaking towards stuff in the wrong direction to what I want.
Can anyone suggest some better spots to look for this sort of thing? To be clear, I'm not looking for dragging and dropping files onto my application icon from the Finder, I'm looking for supporting dragging and dropping a file from the finder onto a _window_ of my app.
Thanks as always!!
Edit to add:
I would have thought this was some sort of OS Event, described in apple events under interapplication communication...?
I spent a few minutes just now trying various apps I thought might support this sort of thing (i.e. in MS Word seeing if it supported dragging a SimpleText document from the finder onto an open Word document and seeing if it would extract the text and insert it into the document but no luck. Basically, I was seeing if any program supported this sort of functionality but no luck, yet.
Anyway, I want to add some features to it that involve allowing the user to drag and drop an item from the finder (e.g. an application) into the window of my program and then do something with it and I'm looking for some direction on what area of the toolbox or Inside Macintosh to look into for this. I've been using Inside Macintosh for the better part of a year of developing (it aint much, I know, but the point is I'm not a complete noob to looking stuff up in there) but couldn't find anything obvious about this variety of 'drag and drop.' I found a bunch of 'drag and drop' related to AOCE - Apple Open Collaboration Environment and related Catalog stuff -- I admittedly didn't read through every bit of the possible parts but it just seems to be speaking towards stuff in the wrong direction to what I want.
Can anyone suggest some better spots to look for this sort of thing? To be clear, I'm not looking for dragging and dropping files onto my application icon from the Finder, I'm looking for supporting dragging and dropping a file from the finder onto a _window_ of my app.
Thanks as always!!
Edit to add:
I would have thought this was some sort of OS Event, described in apple events under interapplication communication...?
I spent a few minutes just now trying various apps I thought might support this sort of thing (i.e. in MS Word seeing if it supported dragging a SimpleText document from the finder onto an open Word document and seeing if it would extract the text and insert it into the document but no luck. Basically, I was seeing if any program supported this sort of functionality but no luck, yet.
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