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Sean P. DeNigris

Accepting Email Drops on Pharo Window

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Does anyone have experience with accepting drops of file types which are not supported by default? On StackOverflow [1], it was shown how to do this in Cocoa:
```
[window registerForDraggedTypes:[NSArray arrayWithObjects:(NSString*)kPasteboardTypeFileURLPromise,nil]];
```
but do I really need to modify the VM? It seems like, since Smalltalk is so malleable, and more like an OS than an app, we should accept all types and let the user decide whether to do something with them, no?

[1] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4115987/how-to-get-dropped-mail-message-data-in-a-cocoa-application

Cheers,
Sean

Ben Coman

Re: Accepting Email Drops on Pharo Window

On Mon, Aug 10, 2015 at 11:01 PM, Sean P. DeNigris
<[hidden email]> wrote:

> Does anyone have experience with accepting drops of file types which are not
> supported by default? On StackOverflow [1], it was shown how to do this in
> Cocoa:
> ```
> [window registerForDraggedTypes:[NSArray
> arrayWithObjects:(NSString*)kPasteboardTypeFileURLPromise,nil]];
> ```
> but do I really need to modify the VM? It seems like, since Smalltalk is so
> malleable, and more like an OS than an app, we should accept all types and
> let the user decide whether to do something with them, no?
>
> [1]
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4115987/how-to-get-dropped-mail-message-data-in-a-cocoa-application
>

That sounds right. Bring up a dialog reporting "Unknown paste type"
with a button to view raw and/or start decoding it from within the
debugger.
cheers -ben