Drag and Drop Data

[Jeanne A. E. DeVoto]

At 4:28 PM -0700 6/28/2006, Robert Sneidar wrote:
>Here's a brain buster for you. Let's say I want to drag an email 
>from Apple Mail and drop it onto a field. Normally nothing happens, 
>even though the field gets focused. Is there any way to find out 
>anything about the object being dropped onto the field? THAT would 
>be cool. If you could create hot links to files or other drag and 
>drop objects, like URL's and such, that would be mega cool. Can 
>anyone say project manager with linked to-do's and contacts?

I don't know whether drag and drop supports anything interesting 
except files as yet, but try something like this:


on dragEnter
   beep 2
   set the acceptDrop to true
end dragEnter

on dragDrop
   put the dragData["files"] into myVariable
   answer "Dropped:" & return & myVariable -- list of files
end dragDrop
'
You'd probably want to store the filename(s) in a custom property, 
perhaps creating an icon or something to let the user click and open 
the file.
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