Hi Jan,
Since Apple released System 7, AppleEvents have been used for these purposes : the Finder will launch the application, and send an appleEvent of type "odoc" and class "aevt" -- so you can use that information within Revolution.
I built a standalone including an appleEvent handler, and
* The standalone will only respond to a drop when the file dropped is a Rev stack: dropping any other file/folder on the icon just causes the Finder to reposition the item dragged.
* If I drop a Rev stack on the icon, that stack is opened, and I get NO appleEvents reported by the standalone until I press cmd-Q.
* The $1 parameter is empty.
BTW, I've been dragging my feet about upgrading, and am running Ver 2.1.2 on OSX. Might some of my problems go away in a more recent release?
Other applications that I know that support drag'n'drop from the desktop, will open a screen that says what the application will do -- and then let the user drop a file onto that window in case the application was just double-clicked.
If double-clicked, reVise will display a message saying it operates in d&d mode only, then quit.
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