Drag and Drop from Desktop

[Jan Schenkel]

--- Rob Cozens <rcozens at pon.net> wrote:
> 
> What must change to allow an unopened Rev standalone
> to respond to 
> the drop of a file or folder on its icon by
> launching, processing the 
> file/folder, and quitting automatically?...In other
> words, an 
> application that responds to _nothing_ except the
> drop of a 
> file/folder on its icon?
> -- 
> 
> Rob Cozens
> 

Hi Rob,

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.
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.

Jan Schenkel.

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