OSX drag & drop rev application?

[Alex Shaw]

Thanks Jacqueline!

That and setting values for the standalone OSX settings: Document Type & 
Document Extension, solved things.

kind regards
alex


J. Landman Gay wrote:
> Alex Shaw wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> No problems getting the global variable $1 working on a runrev windows 
>> standalone to determine what data file was dropped on the application 
>> or double-clicked to launch the standalone but how do you do this on OSX?
>>
>> Discovered if the data file is really a renamed stack set to be opened 
>> by the osx compiled rev standalone then that works ok (stack just runs 
>> and no need for $1) but what if you do not want to use a rev stack 
>> file for your data file container or want to activate the rev app by 
>> dropping a data file onto the standalone application icon sitting on 
>> your dock?
> 
> Use an AppleEvent handler for Macs:
> 
> on appleEvent pClass, pID
>   if pClass is "aevt" and pID is "odoc" then
>     -- the file path is in the appleEvent data
>     request appleEvent data
>     put it into tFilePath
>     -- open the file here
>   else
>     pass appleEvent
>   end if
> end appleEvent
>