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Article #2149Re: Drag and Drop to App Icon question
From: harit
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 17:07
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 17:07
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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
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.programmer Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!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