Sounds nice. I'd say use a download window, whic could be managed by a separate controller. We could start with a bare-bones one, which shouldn't be too much work, and later add some more fancy stuff like progress bars in the table.
So I'd say commit it. I was some time ago also thinking a little bit about services for dropping stuff on the icon. Also for PDF would be easy to implement, as we already have a New From Clipboard method. I was wondering at the time what apps provide services that put PDF on a pasteboard? Christiaan On 9 Aug 2007, at 12:48 AM, Michael McCracken wrote: > Hi, I have a bit of code to implement opening dragged URLs to Skim's > dock icon, but I wanted some feedback on how to finish it up. > > It works for local file urls and for remote URLs, which was what I > wanted - to skip the step of downloading a PDF then opening it in > Skim… > > The way you handle drag requests from the Dock is via system services > (!), so I added an "Open URL in Skim" service. > The first service that handles the dragged type, as determined by the > order in the NSServices array in Info.plist, is invoked to handle the > drag. > I implemented a service that accepts NSStringPboardType and > NSURLPboardType, but it occurs to me that another service to open a > new doc using PDF Data (NSPDFPboardType) might be handy too… > > Currently it just handles the request in the application controller > using NSURLDownload, and NSLog's the status updates (I stole the > NSURLDownload delegate code from BibDesk, thanks!) > > I wasn't sure how to handle user feedback and concurrent downloads, > so I haven't checked anything in yet. > > I thought of two options: > 1. Keep it in the app controller, implement a download queue (maybe > use OmniFrameworks?) and show progress in a downloads window like > browsers use, with a little tableview. > > 2. Move the downloading code to SKDocument, and show progress per- > document in a separate window. > > #1 seems more work than a short hack session, but might be nicer. We > could also imagine a combination of the two, where the documents > download themselves, but send updates to a global downloads window… > > What do you think? > > -mike > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > --- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. > Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. > Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a > browser. > Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ > _______________________________________________ > skim-app-develop mailing list > skim-app-develop@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/skim-app-develop ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ skim-app-develop mailing list skim-app-develop@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/skim-app-develop
