Re: Using drag and drop to set where data should be saved

Jim Lesurf <[email protected]> wrote:

> In article <[email protected]>, Stephen
> Watson <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Jim Lesurf <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> [snip lots]
> > > 
> > > Another is that I've played with the python example at
> > > http://roscidus.com/desktop/Tutorials/Saving
> > > 
> > > and it works quite nicely for A and B above. So I'm hoping that there
> > > is a simple way to extract the full pathname of the file created by
> > > the drag-and-drop and then pass that on to launching the main code. Is
> > > there not a method for reading this name from the class of object for
> > > 'box'.
> > etc?
> 
> > As I recall, the ROX-Lib version expects the call back to create the
> > target file before returning and throws an exception if it doesn't. 
> > You'll need to catch that if you're deferring file creation to a
> > different process.
> 
> What I've been hoping is that there would be a method that lets me extract
> the full-path filename used by SaveBox. The idea being that the python
> could create a 'placeholder' file with some brief contents. But I would
> then know the destination file the user wants, so the following program
> would overwrite that with what was actually desired as output. i.e. after
> the python part does its 'save' and the file appears the python rox loop
> quits by passing on a system command in the command environment for the
> compiled item, telling it the destination file name. (Hope that
explanation
> makes sense!)
> 
> However I've experimented with the SaveBox example and it looks like it
> runs straight though the python into the mainloop before you even get to
> drag and drop the icon! Once it goes into mainloop I have no idea (at
> present) how you would then recover the filename.

Show the code.

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