Drag and Drop to App Icon question

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2 total messages Started by Gordie Freedman Thu, 17 Dec 1992 07:21

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Author: Gordie Freedman
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 07:21

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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)

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Gordie Freedman gordie@yamanote.dolphin.com   ->   NextMail encouraged
(Disclaimer: Opinions expressed are my own and represent no one else.)

Re: Drag and Drop to App Icon question

#2149

Author: harit
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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