I ended up just using a define to easily change it later: #define kiTunesPboardType @"CorePasteboardFlavorType 0x6974756E"
To anyone interested, it is a property list that contains a lot of information about iTunes itself and the tracks being dragged. Thanks for the help, Jim, --Nick On Jan 9, 2010, at 12:08 AM, Jim Correia wrote: > On Jan 8, 2010, at 11:33 PM, Jim Correia wrote: > >> Ultimately, it appears that iTunes is putting bad promise data in the drag. >> At this point it is probably best to file a bug against iTunes. > > Looks like this might simply be a byte order bug with the value in the > promisedFlavor field in the PromiseHFSFlavor data on the pasteboard (though > that doesn’t really help when accessing the data via NSPasteboard.) > > On Jan 8, 2010, at 11:37 PM, Nick Paulson wrote: > >> I am trying to get the path of an item dropped onto a view by iTunes. >> >> iTunes seems to only do this with NSFilesPromisePboardType. Maybe I am >> wrong, though. > > The promised data isn’t really what you wanted anyway. The idea behind the > promise is that the drag provider *promises* to create a new file in location > specified in the drag receiver. It sounds like you are interested in the file > that is being dragged, not a copy of it. > > iTunes does provide all the data in the drag that you need (and more), but > does so through the ‘itun’ drag flavor. I haven’t seen this documented > anywhere as a public, supported pasteboard flavor. It has been available for > some time, but unless it is documented as a such, it could disappear (or > change) at any time. Proceed accordingly. > > - Jim_______________________________________________ > > 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/cocoa%40nickpaulson.com > > This email sent to co...@nickpaulson.com _______________________________________________ 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
