Re: Drag to Finder and create a file

FROM : Serge Meynard
DATE : Mon Apr 11 00:49:18 2005

On Apr 10, 2005, at 14:46, Lorenzo wrote:
> I would like to drag an object from my app to the Finder and create my
> own
> file with my own fileName.
> I can quite succeed when I declared the type NSTIFFPboardType in the
> pasterboard, but when I declare my own type it doesn't work. I cannot
> get
> any file in the Finder. How to do that?
>
>    myTypes = [NSArray arrayWithObjects:MyPboardType, nil];
>    [pboard declareTypes:myTypes owner:self];
>    [pboard setData:someData forType:MyPboardType];
>
>
> Best Regards
> --
> Lorenzo
> email: <email_removed>


I'm no expert on Finder behavior, but I'm guessing that the Finder
isn't set up to arbitrarily create files from unknown pasteboard
content types. If you create a TIFF pasteboard, that's something the
Finder recognizes and it happily complies.

Serge