Re: Drag and Drop a File... help!!
Re: Drag and Drop a File... help!!
- Subject: Re: Drag and Drop a File... help!!
- From: Stephen Jensen <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 7 Dec 2002 11:49:57 -0800
I've tried the NSVCardPboardType... didn't work. Palm Desktop was not
aware of it, but Address Book and Finder didn't seem to like it, either.
I've looked at HFS promises before... and concur with what Buzz said. I
don't think it will work with the older apps.
Thanks!
On Saturday, December 7, 2002, at 11:12 AM, Buzz Andersen wrote:
See the section "HFS Promises" in the 10.2 AppKit release notes
The somewhat strange way (IMHO) in which promised drags have been
implemented in Cocoa might cause a conflict with his desire to
preserve the ability to drag into Palm Desktop, Address Book, and
other vCard savvy apps. Specifically, one has to use NSView's
dragPromisedFilesOfTypes:fromRect:source:slideBack:event: method,
which, at least as far as I can tell, doesn't give you the opportunity
to specify any other representations of the data on the pasteboard
(this has been discussed on the list before). So, unless the other
programs can handle HFS promises, you're out of luck. Am I wrong
about this?
Also, another contraindication to the use of promised drags (at least
at present) is that the Finder has an annoying bug that can come into
play with 10.2's spring-loaded folder feature. If you drop a promised
file on a Finder folder and mistime it so that you release the drop
right before the folder springs open, all of the sudden the Finder
becomes confused and the icons in the parent folder stop highlighting.
This isn't *that* bad, I suppose, unless the parent folder happens to
be the Desktop, in which case your only option for getting things back
to normal is to restart the Finder. I know all of this because I am
working on an application that uses promised drags, and I have already
dealt with Apple Developer Tech Support on this very issue (they
confirmed that it is simply a Finder bug that affects both Carbon and
Cocoa apps).
What I would personally look into is the new "NSVCardPboardType" data
type added to NSPasteboard in 10.2 (see the documentation on
NSPasteboard). I've never tried using it, but I think it might do the
trick...
--
Buzz Andersen
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web: http://www.scifihifi.com
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