Drag and drop filetype

J. Landman Gay jacque at hyperactivesw.com
Sat Jan 14 18:30:38 EST 2012


On 1/14/12 8:07 AM, Randolph Valentine wrote:
> Hi, all. I've got a very basic question. After a file is drag-and-dropped,
> how can I determine WHAT the dropped item is referring to, e.g., a FOLDER or
> a FILE, and if a file, RELIABLY, what KIND of file (e.g., a doc or a wav)?

See "dragData" in the dictionary. Write a dragDrop handler that checks 
the dragData["files"] and you can parse out the lines, which contain the 
file path(s) to the files that were dropped. This works cross platform.

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