[Solved] Apparently I was using the wrong data source method to validate drops, which explains why this was not working with my NSOutlineView. Thanks for all the fish.
- Anonymous On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 8:48 PM, Steven Degutis <steven.degu...@gmail.com>wrote: > Hello, > I have been trying to figure out some way of dragging an image, text, link, > anything really, out of a WebView, and into another Cocoa control, such as > NSTextField, NSTableView, or NSImageView. Dragging these things out of my > WebView and into other applications works fine, for example dragging links > or images onto Safari, and text into TextEdit. But dragging into a control > that is in the same application does not work. > > I've created and tested a test-case project that shows the bare bones. In > this project, I simply dragged a WebView and TextField into IB, set the > WebView's URL to google.com, ran the app, and tried dragging some text out > of the WebView into the NSTextField, and it snaps back with no option of > Copy or other actions being available. > > Ultimately what I'd like to do is drag elements out of the WebView and into > an NSOutlineView, and extract the represented data out of the element. > Looking through the documentation, I've stumbled upon this page: > > > http://developer.apple.com/DOCUMENTATION/AppleApplications/Conceptual/SafariJSProgTopics/Tasks/DragAndDrop.html > > However, this seems to have nothing to do with dragging elements or items > out of the WebView and into other Cocoa controls, but only about dragging > them into other items in the WebView. It's possible that what I'm trying to > do is not possible, but I'm hoping this is not true. > > Any help would not only be appreciated, but would be remembered for longer > than a day, and possibly thanked at an upcoming WWDC, maybe even more, who > knows. > > ~Steven Degutis > -- ~Steven Degutis President, Thoughtful Tree Software, Inc. http://www.ThoughtfulTree.com/ http://www.TeachMeCocoa.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
