Drag-n-drop Time Out & Rev Freeze

[James Cass]

Excellent!  That did it.
Thank you very much, Ken!

-James

On Feb 19, 2004, at 9:50 PM, Ken Ray wrote:

> So how about this:
>
> on dragEnter
>   set the acceptDrop to true
> end dragEnter
>
> on dragDrop
>   set the droppedFiles of me to the dragData
>   send "NotifyUser" to me in 20 milliseconds
> end dragDrop
>
> on NotifyUser
>   answer "You dropped these items on me:" & cr & cr & (the droppedFiles
> of me)
> end NotifyUser
>
>
> That should work...
>
> Ken Ray
> Sons of Thunder Software
> Email: kray at sonsothunder.com
> Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/
>
>> Thanks for the feedback, Ken.  Maybe this would help explain
>> my situation.
>>  Here's a distilled version of my problem:
>>
>> --begin--
>> --add this code to the script of a scrolling list field--
>>
>> on dragEnter
>>   set the acceptDrop to true
>> end dragEnter
>>
>> on dragDrop
>>   put the dragData into myFiles
>>   answer "You dropped these items on me:" & cr & cr & myFiles
>> end dragDrop
>>
>> --end--
>>
>> I'm running MacOSX (10.3.2).  If you drag one or more files
>> to the field
>> and wait 20 secs, you'll see ghosts of the dragged files zoom back to
>> their source.  At that point I cannot click on the OK of the answer
>> dialog.  Sometimes I can press return to answer "OK", but
>> sometimes Rev is
>> completely frozen and must be forced to quit.  The feedback
>> the user's
>> will see in the "real" answer dialog will be showing them
>> files that could
>> not be processed because they have invalid file names.  There
>> is a very
>> good chance the user will take longer than 20 secs to read this
>> information.
>>
>> Thanks in advance...James
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> "Ken Ray" <kray at sonsothunder.com>
>> Sent by: use-revolution-bounces at lists.runrev.com
>> 02/19/04 05:25 PM
>> Please respond to kray; Please respond to How to use Revolution
>>
>>         To:     "'How to use Revolution'"
>> <use-revolution at lists.runrev.com>
>>         cc:
>>         Subject:        RE: Drag-n-drop Time Out & Rev Freeze
>>
>>
>> Well, you could accept the file names from the drop and store
>> them in a variable (don't put them in a field), and *then*
>> bring up your answer dialogs. If everything's OK, you use the
>> data in the variable; if not, you ditch it.
>>
>> Ken Ray
>> Sons of Thunder Software
>> Email: kray at sonsothunder.com
>> Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/
>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: use-revolution-bounces at lists.runrev.com
>>> [mailto:use-revolution-bounces at lists.runrev.com] On Behalf Of
>>> James.Cass at sealedair.com
>>> Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2004 3:56 PM
>>> To: How to use Revolution
>>> Subject: Drag-n-drop Time Out & Rev Freeze
>>>
>>>
>>> Here's what happens:
>>>
>>> 1.  I drag some files from the OS (Mac OS X) to a
>> drag-n-drop enabled
>>> field. 2.  I have answer dialogs during the Drag-n-drop handler to
>>> give feedback
>>> to the user.
>>> 3.  If the answer dialogs are not answered within 20 seconds, the
>>> Drag-n-Drop times out and freezes Revolution.
>>>
>>> Has anyone encountered this problem and come up with a fix?
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance....James
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