Re: GWorkspace Dragndrop Question

[Fred Kiefer]

Enrico Sersale wrote:
> On 2003-06-23 16:32:18 +0300 Fred Kiefer <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> > Hi Chad,
> >
> > what you describe is an inconsistency between GWorkspace and the 
> > GNUstep GUI. And as you did find out GUI in this case is right, as it 
> > does the same as Cocoa. They both expect the copy/paste of 
> > NSFilenamesPboardType to work with the propertylist interface of the 
> > pastboard (which internally uses an NSSerializer), wheras GWorkspace 
> > uses an NSArchiver for the same task. The difference can be seen in 
> > the method on [NSView dragFile:fromRect:slideBack:event:] in GUI and 
> > the methods on IconViewsIcon in GWorkspace. Gworkspace will need some 
> > corrections here.
>
>
> Ok, I can correct this in ten minutes :-) But, due of my bad English, I 
> don't understand well if I can pass an array to 
> -setPropertyList:forType:. GWorkspace uses only arrays, even with a 
> single file.

Yes this is an allowed type to put into this method, In this case even 
the expected type. As I wrote below the current GUI code looks incorrect 
to me.

> > I am also not sure if the GNUstep implementation is fully correct, as 
> > a single filename may be set here, where I would always expect an 
> > array of filenames. But than again, I did write this code some time 
> > ago, so it may be wrong. It looks like this is closely related with 
> > NSImage also only expecting one file name in the pasteboard. Both 
> > should be corrected.