Re: Drag to Finder and create a file

FROM : The Karl Adam
DATE : Mon Apr 11 03:59:21 2005

Actually, the Finder will create whatever file you want, as long as
you give it the right instructions in the right order. In this case
the drag your a trying to perform is an HFS Promise Drag in which you
drag nonexistant data to the finder and to have it create a file there
as promised. You can search the archives for HFS Promise Drag and
plenty of relevant info should come up.

-Karl

On Apr 10, 2005 6:49 PM, Serge Meynard <<email_removed>> wrote:
> 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
>
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