Re: How to accept drag of a URL on the dock icon?
Re: How to accept drag of a URL on the dock icon?
- Subject: Re: How to accept drag of a URL on the dock icon?
- From: Ken Thomases <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 21 Dec 2013 18:48:39 -0600
For what it's worth, this is documented somewhat in Cocoa Scripting Guide: How Cocoa Applications Handle Apple Events – Apple Events Sent by the Mac OS – Open Contents.
https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/cocoa/conceptual/ScriptableCocoaApplications/SApps_handle_AEs/SAppsHandleAEs.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/20001239-1121328
Cheers,
Ken
On Dec 21, 2013, at 5:22 PM, Andy Lee wrote:
> To answer my own question, it looks like it's done by implementing a Service. I've gotten it working in a quick scratch application.
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> --Andy
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> On Dec 21, 2013, at 6:06 PM, Andy Lee <email@hidden> wrote:
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>> I know how to accept files that are dragged from Finder to the application icon. It's a matter of adding some settings to Info.plist and implementing the application:openFiles: application delegate method.
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>> This does not work for dragging URLs from a web browser -- for example, dragging from Safari's URL field, or dragging an image being displayed in Safari to the dock icon. What happens is, my application:openFiles: method is never called, and the URL is given back to Safari to reload.
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>> Yet it is clearly possible for applications to accept dragging of URLs to their Dock icons, because it works for other browsers. What are those other browsers doing?
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>> I tried using a custom contentView for the dock tile, and having that view be a drag destination (call registerForDraggedTypes: and implement NSDraggingDestination methods). But that didn't make any difference.
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>> --Andy
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