[Pythonmac-SIG] How to make an apt except Drag and Drop

[Daniel Lord]

Christopher,

I found an example in a wiki that works perfectly accepting objects  
before and after startup.

http://wiki.wxpython.org/index.cgi/Optimizing_for_Mac_OS_X

Towards the end there is a sample wxPython applications and a  
setup.py file.
Be aware that you need to replace a line in the setup.py:
change "from setuptools import setup"
to "from distutils.core import setup"
but with that one change it worked perfectly for me.

My system is OS X 10.4.8 python 2.5 MacbookPro core 2 Duo

Daniel

On Mar 8, 2007, at 10:32, Christopher Barker wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I'm working on making an app accept drag and drop of files. It appears
> to do that I need to put the right incantations into the plist in the
> app bundle.
>
> Py2app helps out a lot with that, but now I need to figure out what
> incantations I need.
>
> The case at hand is a text editor, so I want:
>
> - It should accept ALL text files for editing.
>
> - It shouldn't impose its icon on anything.
>
> - Maybe it should accept all files -- you never really know, and it
> really bugs me when an app won't accept a file that the OS thinks it
> doesn't know what to do with -- if I get Garbage, I get Garbage.
>
> This is what I've tried:
>
> Plist = dict(CFBundleDocumentTypes= [dict(CFBundleTypeExtensions= 
> ["*"],
>                                            CFBundleTypeRole="Editor"),
>                                      ]
>               )
>
> That does seem to allow it to accept all files. What if I did just  
> want
> text? There's no way to specify all the possible extensions.
>
> I've noticed that there is:
>
> CFBundleTypeName
>
> Which I could set to: "kUTTypeText"
>
> would that do it? And is the ByndleTypeName and  
> BundleTypeExtensions an
> AND or OR relationship?
>
> This is all a bit confusing, as I thought OS-X figured out file types
> from combination of extensions, old Type and creator codes, and the  
> *nix
> "file" utility. I that case, couldn't I just set a Mime-type or
> something, and let the OS (or is the Finder?) figure out extensions,
> etc. Is that what CFBundleTypeName does?
>
> Is there anything else I should do?
>
> This is a wxPython App, by the way but I don't think that effects this
> issue.
>
> -Chris
>
>
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