For what it's worth, this is documented somewhat in Cocoa Scripting Guide: How Cocoa Applications Handle Apple Events – Apple Events Sent by the Mac OS – Open Contents. https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/cocoa/conceptual/ScriptableCocoaApplications/SApps_handle_AEs/SAppsHandleAEs.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/20001239-1121328
Cheers, Ken On Dec 21, 2013, at 5:22 PM, Andy Lee wrote: > 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/ken%40codeweavers.com > > This email sent to k...@codeweavers.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: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
