Re: Drop location on the Finder?
Re: Drop location on the Finder?
- Subject: Re: Drop location on the Finder?
- From: Charles Srstka <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2001 16:42:56 -0500
Thanks for the e-mail address. They will indeed get inundated. :-) My
app can never reach version 1.0 until this functionality is available,
because drag and drop is central to my idea for how my app should work
and what I want to use it for. It's very frustrating.
On Monday, October 22, 2001, at 12:50 PM, Brian Webster wrote:
On Monday, October 22, 2001, at 10:28 AM, cocoa-dev-
email@hidden wrote:
Anyone knows how to get the drop location of drags to the Finder?
Something like promiseHFS in Carbon?
Well, there is a mechanism in Cocoa to do this. You do it by writing
data of type NSFileContentsPboardType to the dragging pasteboard. But,
in order for drag and drop to work between Carbon and Cocoa apps, a
translation needs to occur for the two types of apps to be able to
communicate. There is support for a handful of types, but the
NSFileContentsPboardType <-> promiseHFSFlavor translation is not
present, so there's really no way to create new files in the Finder
from a Cocoa app (well, no way that isn't an ugly hack). This is
Apple's problem to take care of, so feel free to inundate cocoa-
email@hidden with requests for this functionality in
upcoming releases.
--
Brian Webster
email@hidden
http://homepage.mac.com/bwebster
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