Re: Dragging anything out of a WebView into other Cocoa controls
Re: Dragging anything out of a WebView into other Cocoa controls
- Subject: Re: Dragging anything out of a WebView into other Cocoa controls
- From: Steven Degutis <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 3 Apr 2009 22:10:27 -0500
[Solved]
Apparently I was using the wrong data source method to validate drops, which
explains why this was not working with my NSOutlineView. Thanks for all the
fish.
- Anonymous
On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 8:48 PM, Steven Degutis <email@hidden>wrote:
> Hello,
> I have been trying to figure out some way of dragging an image, text, link,
> anything really, out of a WebView, and into another Cocoa control, such as
> NSTextField, NSTableView, or NSImageView. Dragging these things out of my
> WebView and into other applications works fine, for example dragging links
> or images onto Safari, and text into TextEdit. But dragging into a control
> that is in the same application does not work.
>
> I've created and tested a test-case project that shows the bare bones. In
> this project, I simply dragged a WebView and TextField into IB, set the
> WebView's URL to google.com, ran the app, and tried dragging some text out
> of the WebView into the NSTextField, and it snaps back with no option of
> Copy or other actions being available.
>
> Ultimately what I'd like to do is drag elements out of the WebView and into
> an NSOutlineView, and extract the represented data out of the element.
> Looking through the documentation, I've stumbled upon this page:
>
>
> http://developer.apple.com/DOCUMENTATION/AppleApplications/Conceptual/SafariJSProgTopics/Tasks/DragAndDrop.html
>
> However, this seems to have nothing to do with dragging elements or items
> out of the WebView and into other Cocoa controls, but only about dragging
> them into other items in the WebView. It's possible that what I'm trying to
> do is not possible, but I'm hoping this is not true.
>
> Any help would not only be appreciated, but would be remembered for longer
> than a day, and possibly thanked at an upcoming WWDC, maybe even more, who
> knows.
>
> ~Steven Degutis
>
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~Steven Degutis
President, Thoughtful Tree Software, Inc.
http://www.ThoughtfulTree.com/
http://www.TeachMeCocoa.com/
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