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From: "Simon Lord" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2001 3:17 PM
Subject: Drag and Drop
> Does MC support dragging an image, text file or folder onto a field
> or button in a open stack? Ideally, I'd like to drag a set of images
> onto a button or field and have the stack categorize them via a
> custom script. I'd also like it to work from the desktop of any
> platform so using an external is out of the question.
This would be nice. So how would it work, anyway?
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DISCLAIMER: I have no idea how difficult it would be to implement what I'm
talking about here. This is just an idea. Some other approach may be a dozen
times better.
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What if MC had a new "fileDrop" message? It could be sent to the topmost
control whose rectangle contained "the dropLocation" (a new prop or func).
SYNTAX:
on fileDrop
PARAMETERS:
A list (or array?) containing one multi-item line of info per dropped file
- item 1 = file type ("text",...)
- item 2 = file location (path or url)
EXAMPLE:
-- text field handler example
on fileDrop pDropFiles
-- hide the changes until done
lock screen
put text of me into tOriginalText
put empty into me
-- put new text (if any) into field
repeat for each line tFileDescription in pDropFiles
if item 1 of tFileDescription <> "text" then next repeat
put url ("file:" & item 2 of tFileDescription) after text of me
end repeat
-- restore old text if no new text was dropped
if text of me = empty then
put tOriginalText into me
end if
-- show the completed changes
unlock screen
end fileDrop
Food for thought.
Phil Davis
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