On Dec 14, 2008, at 12:30 PM, Yang Meyer wrote:
I am trying to enable dropping dragged iCal events onto my Cocoa
application's icon, e.g. in the Dock.
While it was fairly straightforward to support ICS files that are
dragged from the Finder (setting NSFilenamesPboardType with
extension "ics" in the target's document types, and implementing -
(BOOL)application:(NSApplication *)sender openFile:(NSString *)path
in my application's delegate), I haven't been able to support iCal
events that are dragged directly from iCal.
I analogously tried defining a document type for what I presume will
be an NSFilesPromisePboardType, but I'm not sure what to put in the
fields. Neither using extension "ics" nor MIME type "text/calendar"
works. As for my NSFilenamesPboardType document type, I set the
Store Type to "In memory".
So in essence my question is: How can I tell my application to
accept iCal events dragged directly from the iCal GUI?
Hey Yang,
When iCal events are dragged and exported to another application, iCal
will provide a promised .ics file in ~/Library/Caches/TemporaryItems.
This file has an extension "ics" and a UTI of com.apple.ical.ics.
Ideally, you'd just set the Document Types in your target's properties
(Info.plist) to support this file, but it seems a bit tricky since
this is a promised file and probably does not have these attributes
set yet during the drag.
I didn't have a lot of time to experiment or research how to support
promised file drops on the application icon, but one way to make this
work is to register a "catch all" document type in Info.plist, and
then your application will allow drops of iCal events, although along
with it every other kind of file. You can do this in your target's
properties window by adding a document type with an extension of "*"
and an OS type of "****". You will now receive the temporary file
"~Library/Caches/TemporaryItems/Event.ics" in your App delegate's
application:openFile: method when an iCal event is dropped on your
application's icon. You will have to make sure to look at the type of
files in the delegate method now, since you will receive anything with
the catch all type set.
Hope that helps,
Sean.
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