Re: Appropriate interface element for representing a dropped file

FROM : Mike Abdullah
DATE : Wed Mar 26 01:47:55 2008

On 25 Mar 2008, at 19:06, has wrote:

> Evan Chaney wrote:
>

>> I am writing an AppleScript Studio application that is a front-end
>> for the ditto command. I would like the main application window to
>> have two drag and drop targets where the user can drop a source
>> folder and a destination folder. Each target would then display the
>> name and icon of the chosen file. What UI element would be
>> appropriate to use here?

>
>
> NSTextField and NSImageView for displaying paths and icons 
> respectively (the former can accept keyboard input and both can 
> accept file drag-n-drop).


If you can target Leopard only, I would highly recommend using 
NSPathControl instead of an NSTextField.