"Phil" is Paul's nickname, I'm almost certain. ;-)
Phil
On 10/14/13 12:19 PM, Ray wrote:
Phil,
Many thanks for including this stack! I'm in New York right now (out
of town for me) but I'm anxious to get back home in a few days where I
can experiment with this on my Mac. Interesting how you've put the
scripts in the card script but still need the field present to catch
the message. What I'd like to see is a stack with absolutely no
objects in it receive the dragDrop message somewhere, either in the
card script or the stack script. But evidently we need to put
'dummy' controls like a field or an image on the card to trap for this
message. Please correct me if I'm wrong.
Thanks,
Ray
On 10/13/2013 2:55 PM, Paul Hibbert wrote:
Ken,
I don't think you even need to go into a polling mode, as soon as
user drags an item onto a stack it triggers a 'dragMove' message so
trapping that should work on both platforms.
Tried a few tests with a small stack and tackling the problem from a
different angle seems to do the trick on OSX and Win7.
Ray, the test stack is here, hope it helps…
https://www.dropbox.com/s/hddd6qx0vmilsot/Drag%20and%20Drop%20text.livecode
- no restrictions on use!
Paul
On 2013-10-13, at 9:48 AM, Ken Ray wrote:
How about going into a polling mode, checking the dragData["files"]
every second or so... it should start out empty, but as soon as the
user starts to drag a file from the desktop, it should have
something in it.
Just a thought,
Ken Ray
Sons of Thunder Software
On Oct 12, 2013, at 11:25 AM, Ray <r...@linkit.com> wrote:
Phil - thanks for the suggestion but I just tried it and no-can-do.
For some reason, and this is a Mac-only behavior, when I mouseDown
on the desktop I can't see any messages at all which are sent to
Livecode. The suspend message is sent if I mouseDown on another
stack, but not on a file on the desktop or the desktop itself.
Let me know if anything else comes to mind.
Thanks,
Ray
On 10/12/2013 10:51 AM, Phil Davis wrote:
Have you tried using 'suspend' instead of 'mouseDown' and
'suspendStack'? Should work the same on both platforms (famous
last words!).
Phil
On 10/12/13 6:31 AM, Ray wrote:
On Windows the instant there is a 'mouseDown' on the desktop the
current stack window goes inactive, thus triggering the
suspendStack message. I use this to create a field which then
accepts dragDrops. However, this is different on a Mac. The
current stack window on a Mac waits until the mouse comes up on a
desktop click, thus defeating my scheme which creates the field
to accept a dragDrop as soon as the mouse goes down on the desktop.
Any ideas anybody on how to trap for a mouse down on the desktop
on a Mac?
Many thanks,
Ray
LinkIt! Software
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