What on earth is the “1$ special variable”? Craig
> On Mar 21, 2024, at 6:58 PM, Bob Sneidar via use-livecode > <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > > Wow I just read that and it didn’t even make sense to me! > > Basically with Windows, dragging a file onto a taskbar icon only adds the > file to the icon’s Pinned items. Dragging a file onto an open window of an > App will try and open the file in that app. If the app’s window(s) are > hidden, dragging and hovering over the app’s shortcut will cause the app to > show it’s window(s) whereupon you can drop the file onto the open window. > > Bob S > > > On Mar 21, 2024, at 3:46 PM, Bob Sneidar via use-livecode > <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > > Does it have to be the icon? If I drag a file onto an app in the Windows Tack > Bar it does nothing, even if the file belongs to the app I am dragging the > file onto. If however I HOVER on the icon and the app is running, it will > bring the app to the front and show the frontmost window if it is hidden. > > If I drag the file onto the open Window, the app will open it. Case in point, > drag an Excel spreadsheet onto the Excel icon in the task bar. All it will do > is add a shortcut to the Excel icon for that file. But launch Excel, open a > blank spreadsheet, then drag an excel file onto the icon, hover, then drop > onto the blank Excel Spreadsheet. In THIS case it will open the spreadsheet > in a new window. > > Because of this you may be able to use a Drag / Drop handler in your card > script. The caveat is that the card itself will not accept a drag/drop > action, but if you drag anything on top of an actual object, THEN the card > will get the message. > > So to handle this, add an opaque rectangle the size of the card behind > everything else (if the opacity is set to 99 it will appear transparent for > all intents and purposes). The rectangle (or any other object on the card > that doesn’t have a dragDrop handler) will get the message and it will fall > through to the card where you can handle it. > > This in my card script: > > on dragEnter > set the dragAction to "link" -- for files > pass dragEnter > end dragEnter > > on dragDrop > put the dragData into tDragData > set the dragData to empty > -- do something with tDragData > end dragDrop > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
