To answer my own question, it looks like it's done by implementing a Service. I've gotten it working in a quick scratch application.
--Andy On Dec 21, 2013, at 6:06 PM, Andy Lee <ag...@mac.com> wrote: > I know how to accept files that are dragged from Finder to the application > icon. It's a matter of adding some settings to Info.plist and implementing > the application:openFiles: application delegate method. > > This does not work for dragging URLs from a web browser -- for example, > dragging from Safari's URL field, or dragging an image being displayed in > Safari to the dock icon. What happens is, my application:openFiles: method > is never called, and the URL is given back to Safari to reload. > > Yet it is clearly possible for applications to accept dragging of URLs to > their Dock icons, because it works for other browsers. What are those other > browsers doing? > > I tried using a custom contentView for the dock tile, and having that view be > a drag destination (call registerForDraggedTypes: and implement > NSDraggingDestination methods). But that didn't make any difference. > > --Andy _______________________________________________ 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: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
