--- On Fri, 8/14/09, Tariel Gogoberidze <[email protected]> wrote: > From: Tariel Gogoberidze <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: Drop destination path > To: [email protected] > Date: Friday, August 14, 2009, 12:56 AM > > > On Thu, 13 Aug 2009 05:25:57 +0200, Jim Sims > wrote: > > > > > > You don't state if you need an OS X and Windows > solution, but if you > > select a folder and then run the following applescript > you will get > > the path (in this case it is copied to the clipboard). > Hope it helps > > you somehow. > > > > tell application "Finder" > > copy selection to theSelected > > set outputPathList to {} > > repeat with anItem in theSelected > > copy (POSIX path > of (anItem as alias)) to end of outputPathList > > end repeat > > set AppleScript's text item > delimiters to return > > set outputString to outputPathList > as string > > set AppleScript's text item > delimiters to "" > > set the clipboard to outputString > > end tell > > > Thanks Sims, nice script, I had a simpler version. > > tell application "Finder" > get selection > set curr_sel to result as alias > set posix_path to (POSIX path of (curr_sel) as > string) > set the clipboard to posix_path > end tell > > but they both work only if folder is preselected. And yes, > I need a windows solution as well > > > On Wed, 12 Aug 2009 23:09:45 -0700, Jim Ault > wrote: > > > > > When drag-dropping from one app to another, the first > app does not > > have a way of 'knowing' what object the second app has > used to accept > > the drop (if it accepted the drop at all). This > is true for any of > > the drag-and-drop between programs that I have > experienced in the > > past. The operating system does not know > anything about the second > > app object definitions or drop areas. The same > thing is true of using > > a clipboard to move data. The first app knows > nothing about the paste > > operation in the second app. > > And yet, all FTP clients on Mac ("Transmit" for example) > somehow manage to support drag and drop download to > arbitrary folder. > I suspect windows FTP clients can do drag / drop downloads > to any folder of user choice as well. On Mac I would > probably solve it eventually through AppleScript or Shell > but I have not clue how to do this on windows. > > Thanks for ideas and tips, for small group of users or > internal use that would be great solution, but I need HIG > compliant, "standard way" of doing this. > > I hoped that at least dragData would be able to resolve > remote paths with something like.. > > set the allowableDragActions to "link" > Put " ftp://user:[email protected]:21//Videos/MyVideo"; > into tRemoteFilePath > set the dragData["file"] to tRemoteFilePath > > but that doesn't seems to be a case > > best regards > Tariel >
You can always download the file into a temporary file, and then Windows Explorer at least will simply copy the temporary file to the target destination. ## local sTempName on dragStart put tempName() into sTempName put URL theRemoteURL into sTempName set the allowableDragActions to "copy" set the dragData["file"] to sTempName end dragStart on dragEnd delete file sTempName end dragEnd ## The problem then is that the whole file needs to be downloaded to make this happen, even if the user decides not to drop the file after all. So I don't see a clean solution either. Jan Schenkel ===== Quartam Reports & PDF Library for Revolution <http://www.quartam.com> ===== "As we grow older, we grow both wiser and more foolish at the same time." (La Rochefoucauld) _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
