Making a 'droplet' application?

[Sarah Reichelt]

You will need to set up an AppleEvent handler in your stack script that 
recognises when a document is dropped on it, gets the name of the 
document(s) and processes them. You may also need to set up a defined 
file type. I think there have been discussions about this on the list 
in the past, so search the archives as well as checking the docs for 
AppleEvent.

Cheers,
Sarah

On 23 Feb 2004, at 7:52 am, Ian Wood wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I'm making a workflow app to batch process files.  With the help of 
> the list archives I've got my head around drag and drop so that a list 
> of files from the Finder can be dragged into a field, then every item 
> in the field gets processed-
>
> on dragDrop
> 	set the text of me to the dragData["files"]
> 	--call the function that does the processing at this point
> end dragDrop
>
> What I would like to do is make this even more transparent by dropping 
> files onto the app icon, in the same way that you can with AppleScript 
> droplets.  I can't see anything in the docs or list about this, and am 
> wondering if it is even possible with Rev 2.1.2.
>
> Workaround- make an AppleScript droplet that takes the list of dropped 
> files and launches the Rev app, but this is kind of inelegant...
>
> Ian