Re: command line tool: processing files dropped on it?
Re: command line tool: processing files dropped on it?
- Subject: Re: command line tool: processing files dropped on it?
- From: "Herb Petschauer" <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2008 11:03:34 -0700
2008/10/1 Sherm Pendley <email@hidden>:
> On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 6:46 AM, Barrie Green <email@hidden> wrote:
>
>> hi all,
>>
>> Hopefully someone can point me in the right direction.
>>
>> I have a command line tool, written in c++, that I use on my windows
>> machine, which allows me to drop files onto it. Windows ensures the
>> tool receives the paths of the files dropped through the argc/argv
>> arguments in main.
>>
>> I have ported my tool over to OS X using xcode and created a command
>> line tool and all my tests work OK.
>>
>> But I'm hampered by the fact that finder won't let me drag n drop
>> files onto my tool! I can't even use it from the "Open With" Context
>> menu in finder.
>>
>> I'm sure i've seen other (OS X) tools process files like this,
>> although I can't remember which.
>
>
> If you've seen something that accepts dropped files, it wasn't a
> command-line tool. On Mac OS X, only GUI apps will accept dropped files.
>
>
>> Is there a way of getting this to work?
>
>
> Wil Sanchez' DropScript comes to mind. It creates a "wrapper" app that
> accepts dropped files, then runs your command-line tool with the paths of
> the dropped files passed as arguments. Despite its name, it works with any
> command-line tool, not just scripts.
>
> <http://www.wsanchez.net/software/>
>
> sherm--
>
> --
Thought I'd also mention,
<http://developer.apple.com/documentation/MacOSX/Conceptual/BPRuntimeConfig/Articles/ConfigFiles.html>
You can embed a plist into a binary file so you might be able to get
drag and drop that way. I've done the embedding part but never had
the need for drag and drop onto a tool (and honestly, no Mac user is
going to drag and drop onto a unix executable, wrap it into a GUI app
with a nice icon and a simple UI - something like StuffIt Expander
perhaps).
IMHO (of course)
Cheers,
-H.
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