Re: Dropping text on to Droplets
Re: Dropping text on to Droplets
- Subject: Re: Dropping text on to Droplets
- From: Brennan Young <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 08 Jun 2001 01:26:00 +0200
- Organization: Magic Lantern
Sander Tekelenburg <email@hidden> wrote
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I suppose it could be nice if AS would be able to handle this
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internally on the fly. In the mean time, couldn't you look at the
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file's type, and if it is "TEXT" just have your script read it (and
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then do with it whatever you want to do with it)? Would only work with
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plain text of course.
Problem is, droplets only get triggered by files (i.e. aliases) dropped on them
in the Finder, so I'd still need to save a file first.
What's needed is a mechanism to pass general drag and drop messages to the open
handler of applescript droplets, not just dragged Finder files, then I imagine
it would work even with image clippings, for example a frame dragged from a
Quicktime movie.
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Brennan Young
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