[Vm-dev] URL drop events on MacOS

[Eliot Miranda]

Hi John,

> On Jan 4, 2021, at 9:43 PM, John M McIntosh <johnmci at smalltalkconsulting.com> wrote:
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>  When we did Sophie we just passed every reference to an asset as a URL  so a file: or a url: or a memoryFile: which was very handy to push a blob of data as a file or zip entity. The concrete class for streaming the URL would do the right thing. 

Good to know; thanks.  That suggests to me I should add a primitiveDropRequestURL/dropRequestURL primitive to the DropPlugin and that that would answer results in url format, prepending file:// for files etc. primitiveDropRequestFile would remain for backwards compatibility. Make sense?

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>> On Mon, Jan 4, 2021 at 20:01, Eliot Miranda <eliot.miranda at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi All,
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>>     I'm plumbing in support for launching the macos application via URL scheme drop events/apple events.  I'm asking for review.  I think the right way to go is to piggy back off of EventTypeDragDropFiles rather than add another kind of event.  If so there's a fork in the road.  Either use SQDragDrop (see sq.h) and dropRequestFileName and have dropRequestFileName answer a name prefixed with 'url:', or add e.g. SQDropUrl and add primitiveDropRequestURL/dropRequestURL to the DropPlugin.  Opinions?
>> _,,,^..^,,,_
>> best, Eliot
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