Question

I have a fairly straightforward question about using droplets for my mac application. My app is not a document based app.

Is there any way to get the path of the item that was dropped? How would I go about implementing this if that was the case? I have looked into this, and it doesn’t look like I can do droplets at all without making my app document based, which I really don’t want to do.

Thanks ahead of time!

Answer 1

You don’t have to use NSDocument at all to make a droplet. Just include CFBundleDocumentTypes in your Info.plist (see Storing Document Types Information in the Application’s Property List for details) and implement application:openFile: in your app delegate (there are variants of this method for multiple files etc.).