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Re: [Q]How can I bring the information of the file that I select from desktop to a program that I intend to make?
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Re: [Q]How can I bring the information of the file that I select from desktop to a program that I intend to make?


  • Subject: Re: [Q]How can I bring the information of the file that I select from desktop to a program that I intend to make?
  • From: "M. Uli Kusterer" <email@hidden>
  • Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2005 15:40:53 +0100

At 16:39 Uhr +0900 04.01.2005, hwang hee wrote:
I would like to know how to put the information about the file's path in a text filed by clicking a file with the mouse-or, others actions-on desktop. Of course, it should happen while I am executing the program.

Don't do that. Use drag & drop instead. Users can drag a file from the Finder (or a document's proxy icon, or whatever), and drop it on your file path field. You will have to write the drop-accepting code for your field yourself right now.


In my opinion, it is better to use the method of obtaining some information by catching a particular event under Operating System. Some programmers call this "Hooking."

Better than what? IMHO, drag and drop is better, because the clicking technique requires that you enter a "file picking mode", and modes are something that should be avoided where you can; modes confuse most users because they click on the same object, but something completely different happens this time than what happened without the mode.


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