Dragfiles On MAC

[collectordave]

Is it possible to drag files from my application to another on the mac?

I am looking at DragDrop.pb from the help file and only the Image can be dragged.

Is this correct behaviour?

CD

[collectordave]

I cannot find anything about it but have a maybe workaround.

After creating a folder and the file I want the user to drag I open Finder with just that file they can then use finders drag and drop.

Not perfect but seems to work. Code adapted from another post.

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Dest$ = GetUserDirectory(#PB_Directory_Documents) + "My Exports/St Pierre.csv"
RunProgram("open", "-R " + Chr(34) + Dest$ + Chr(34), "")

Would be better if we could start the drag operation with a script.

CD

[collectordave]

Just tried it and it works.

Start users web browser to display upload page

Wait a couple of seconds.

Start Finder to display file on top of web browser

User can drag file to upload box.

Just need to do the same for windows now.

[Marc56us]

Is it possible to drag files from my application to another on the mac?

Just need to do the same for windows now.

I don't have a Mac, but I don't see what the difficulty is for Windows (or I didn't understand the question ?)
Drag a file from a PB application (ie: ExplorerListGadget) to any other Windows appli or folder is easy:

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RunProgram(GetUserDirectory(#PB_Directory_Documents))
OpenWindow(0, 0, 0, 400, 200, "") 
ExplorerListGadget(1, 10, 10, 380, 180, "*.*")
Repeat  
    If WaitWindowEvent()    = #PB_Event_Gadget          And 
       EventType()          = #PB_EventType_DragStart   And 
       EventGadget()        = 1   
        DragFiles(GetGadgetText(1) + GetGadgetItemText(1, GetGadgetState(1)))    
    EndIf  
Until WaitWindowEvent() = #PB_Event_CloseWindow

Making a D&D of a file from or to a PB application consists in passing the full file name. It is PB or the system that will do the necessary conversion to the object. As usual, PB do the job for you.

[mk-soft]

Something was changed on the macOS system (from version High Sierra).
Since then, dragging lists (ListView, ListIcon, etc) no longer works.

Press left mouse button and move mouse is now multi-selection

[Shardik]

I don't have a Mac, but I don't see what the difficulty is for Windows (or I didn't understand the question ?)

On MacOS drag 'n drop support is broken since PB 5.00 (with the change from the Carbon framework to the Cocoa framework). About 7 years ago fsw had posted this summary with links to bug postings concerning MacOS drag 'n drop. Fred posted this answer in that thread:

Cocoa drag'n'drop model is not fully compatiable with PB model, I don't know how to work around it (for now).

Some features of drag 'n drop work in MacOS like drag 'n drop of images. For another broken feature exists an uncomfortable workaround like drag 'n drop for the ListIconGadget.

This simple example demonstrates how to drag files from Finder into an EditorGadget and display their paths and names.