In one of my apps I have a list of things I'd like folks to be able to
drag to the Finder, and then when they're dropped I'll assemble the
needed parts and write them to a file at the drag destination.
I can't figure out how to get the path where the user dropped.
Did I miss something
--- On Fri, 2/26/10, Richard Gaskin ambassa...@fourthworld.com wrote:
In one of my apps I have a list of
things I'd like folks to be able to drag to the Finder, and
then when they're dropped I'll assemble the needed parts and
write them to a file at the drag destination.
I can't figure out
On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 10:12 AM, Richard Gaskin ambassa...@fourthworld.com
wrote:
In one of my apps I have a list of things I'd like folks to be able to drag
to the Finder, and then when they're dropped I'll assemble the needed parts
and write them to a file at the drag destination.
I
Jeff Massung wrote:
On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 10:12 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote:
In one of my apps I have a list of things I'd like folks to be able to drag
to the Finder, and then when they're dropped I'll assemble the needed parts
and write them to a file at the drag destination.
I can't figure
On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 10:46 AM, Richard Gaskin ambassa...@fourthworld.com
wrote:
Jeff Massung wrote:
On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 10:12 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote:
In one of my apps I have a list of things I'd like folks to be able to
drag
to the Finder, and then when they're dropped I'll
Jeff Massung wrote:
On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 10:46 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote:
...
But as Jan suggested, how do most FTP clients work? In Interarchy I can
drop to any folder and it works great. I'd like to be able to do something
similar - there must be a way.
Sorry, Richard, perhaps I'm
On Feb 26, 2010, at 10:22 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote:
It's a lot of overhead, but provides so much usability that I'm willing to
give it a try if only I could find the shell commands to get that list of
open windows for OS X, Win, and Linux.
On Feb 26, 2010, at 10:22 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote:
I've used a few like that myself (GoLive and FileZilla work that
way). It may be just a Mac convention that supports this so well,
but I use Interarchy for FTP and it does a wonderful job of behaving
Finder-like: I just drag the file
Jim Ault wrote:
On Feb 26, 2010, at 10:22 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote:
I've used a few like that myself (GoLive and FileZilla work that
way). It may be just a Mac convention that supports this so well,
but I use Interarchy for FTP and it does a wonderful job of behaving
Finder-like: I just drag
That's what I have in place now as a workaround, but it's quite a drag to
have to sacrifice consistent interactions: we let folks upload via
drag-and-drop, but make them go through that gawdawful file picker dialog to
download, while other products do it so much more gracefully.
While being
If there's a simpler way to accomplish this I'd love to find it, but it
would appear that Interarchy (and the many other FTP tools that use
drag-and-drop) are getting info from the Finder to know which file to
download their data into.
On OSX, what about querying the path of the front Finder
i might have an idea for you. Be warned, it's a dirty workaround. and only
halfway there. seriously, i'm not fond of it.
I tested this:
on mousedown
set the dragdata[files] to /Users/bvg/Desktop/GreeceMap.jpg
end mousedown
Note that the file does exist. But, when I start a drag from that
Possible solution/workaround for dragging stuff directly to the
Finder: Use 'scaffolding' --some sort of tiny (like, 1-byte), invisible
file with an exotic/unique name, which has no use in and of itself, but
exists to provide a useful side-effect. Drag your 'scaffolding' file to
the
cubist wrote:
Possible solution/workaround for dragging stuff directly to
the Finder: Use 'scaffolding' --some sort of tiny (like,
1-byte), invisible file with an exotic/unique name, which
has no use in and of itself, but exists to provide a useful
side-effect. Drag your 'scaffolding' file
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