Drag and Drop from Desktop

[Rob Cozens]

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.
-- 
Rob Cozens, Staff Conservator
Mendonoma Marine Life Conservancy

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four kids,'' since the fishing moratorium he'd started getting 
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guys in their thirties wanting a vasectomy.  People don't want to 
have children.  There's this feeling of hopelessness.''"

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