On Nov 19, 2009, at 5:24 PM, Chris Idou wrote: > But I'm still confused about one thing: If copying from Finder actually > copies the file icon, and not the actual tiff, how come it pastes ok into > TextEdit?
The Finder also puts the location of the file on the pasteboard, and I believe TextEdit sees that, recognizes that it's an image file, and reads the file into an image. You can do the same fairly easily. —Jens_______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com