I found the answer in a second google search (the first one, before I posted, didn't turn up anything).
<http://boredzo.org/blog/archives/2007-07-23/how-to-make-your-apps-dock-t ile-highlight> explained that I had to run mdls -name kMDItemContentType on my application and add the result (which was com.apple.application-bundle) to the list of LSItemContentTypes That worked. -- Russell In article <rowen-73cc6a.09572718062...@news.gmane.org>, "Russell E. Owen" <ro...@uw.edu> wrote: > I am making a Mac drag-and-drop applet using py2app. > > The resulting application runs, and I can drag files onto the > application's icon in Finder, but I cannot drag files onto the > application's icon in the Dock. > > The application processes plain text files. The property list is as > follows (I reluctantly decided not to list allowed file suffixes because > the appropriate keyword is deprecated for 10.5): > > plist = dict( > CFBundleName = appName, > CFBundleExecutable = appName, > CFBundleShortVersionString = versStr, > CFBundleGetInfoString = "%s %s" % (appName, versStr), > CFBundleDocumentTypes = [ > dict( > CFBundleTypeName = "TEXT", > CFBundleTypeRole = "Viewer", > LSItemContentTypes = [ > "public.plain-text", > "public.text", > "public.data", > ], > ), > ], > ) > > and when I look at the final info.plist and compare it to the plist from > other applications I don't see anything glaringly different (but I'm not > an expert on application proper lists). > > Any idea what's going on? It's a serious limitation not to be able to > drag file onto the dock icon. > > -- Russell > > _______________________________________________ > Pythonmac-SIG maillist - Pythonmac-SIG@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonmac-sig > unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/Pythonmac-SIG _______________________________________________ Pythonmac-SIG maillist - Pythonmac-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonmac-sig unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/Pythonmac-SIG
