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Re: Simulating drag and drop to another application - possible?
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Re: Simulating drag and drop to another application - possible?


  • Subject: Re: Simulating drag and drop to another application - possible?
  • From: Jens Alfke <email@hidden>
  • Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2010 15:36:26 -0800


On Jan 27, 2010, at 10:51 PM, Van Mardian wrote:

I want to build a graphical application (App A) that would simulate a
file drop onto certain areas of another running application (App B) at
the touch of a button.

I don't believe there have ever been public APIs for simulating drag- and-drop at that level. It only runs under the control of the actual mouse. (Unless there's something in the accessibility APIs that allows this?)


What exactly are you trying to do? Are you sure there isn't a way to use AppleScript or something similar to tell app B to accept a new piece of data?

—Jens_______________________________________________

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