Phil,
Many thanks for including this stack! I'm in New York right now (out of
town for me) but I'm anxious to get back home in a few days where I can
experiment with this on my Mac. Interesting how you've put the scripts
in the card script but still need the field present to catch the
message. What I'd like to see is a stack with absolutely no objects in
it receive the dragDrop message somewhere, either in the card script or
the stack script. But evidently we need to put 'dummy' controls like a
field or an image on the card to trap for this message. Please correct
me if I'm wrong.
Thanks,
Ray
On 10/13/2013 2:55 PM, Paul Hibbert wrote:
Ken,
I don't think you even need to go into a polling mode, as soon as user drags an
item onto a stack it triggers a 'dragMove' message so trapping that should work
on both platforms.
Tried a few tests with a small stack and tackling the problem from a different
angle seems to do the trick on OSX and Win7.
Ray, the test stack is here, hope it helps…
https://www.dropbox.com/s/hddd6qx0vmilsot/Drag%20and%20Drop%20text.livecode -
no restrictions on use!
Paul
On 2013-10-13, at 9:48 AM, Ken Ray wrote:
How about going into a polling mode, checking the dragData["files"] every
second or so... it should start out empty, but as soon as the user starts to drag a file
from the desktop, it should have something in it.
Just a thought,
Ken Ray
Sons of Thunder Software
On Oct 12, 2013, at 11:25 AM, Ray <r...@linkit.com> wrote:
Phil - thanks for the suggestion but I just tried it and no-can-do. For some
reason, and this is a Mac-only behavior, when I mouseDown on the desktop I
can't see any messages at all which are sent to Livecode. The suspend message
is sent if I mouseDown on another stack, but not on a file on the desktop or
the desktop itself.
Let me know if anything else comes to mind.
Thanks,
Ray
On 10/12/2013 10:51 AM, Phil Davis wrote:
Have you tried using 'suspend' instead of 'mouseDown' and 'suspendStack'?
Should work the same on both platforms (famous last words!).
Phil
On 10/12/13 6:31 AM, Ray wrote:
On Windows the instant there is a 'mouseDown' on the desktop the current stack
window goes inactive, thus triggering the suspendStack message. I use this to
create a field which then accepts dragDrops. However, this is different on a
Mac. The current stack window on a Mac waits until the mouse comes up on a
desktop click, thus defeating my scheme which creates the field to accept a
dragDrop as soon as the mouse goes down on the desktop.
Any ideas anybody on how to trap for a mouse down on the desktop on a Mac?
Many thanks,
Ray
LinkIt! Software
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