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From: Craig Hoyt <aztech4mac@...>
Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2001 15:40:46 -0700
Yesterday I posted a question to the list and I received several replies.
There seemed to be some confusion as to what the true nature of the
question I was asking. This is an excerpt  of my original post. "I need to
be able to drag a file or folder onto my application window and retrieve
the Name and vRefNum of the file/folder. Folders are the most important
ones to be dragged. The window is a standard FB doc window." This question
(in my mind) is clear, concise and unambiguous. I fail to see why anyone
could not understand this.

Jonathan replied that my question was unclear. While he is correct I am
unclear on the technologies which is precisely why I posted the question in
the first place, I still maintain my question was clear and valid. He then
offered information on dragging FILES to my application Icon. I never came
close to asking this. Another excerpt "I've played with the finderInfo
command and even put in a file type of "fldr" and "****" and "????" but
none of these work. I've also set the SIZE resource to be High Level events
aware." This should have given the clue that I have tried this approach and
it did not work! Charlie also responded with using his Drag & Go utility.
While his application is wonderful it does not accept folders dragged to
the application icon nor  files or folders dragged to the application
window which is what I was asking. Alain seemed to ferret out my question
but even he seemed to be not too confident with what my question actually
was. He provided the link
<http://euro.futurebasic.com/download/FutureJukebox.sea.hqx> which is
either a typo or the file is nonexistent.

Answers to questions not asked or misinformation passed on as answers are
much worse that poorly stated questions. We have extremely intelligent
people on the List and I find it hard to understand why all can't translate
moron to English. Maybe Heather should consider this as the language she
should take but this is probably a life-long study.

An old carpenters axiom is 'measure twice and cut once"... I'd like to
paraphrase this as an axiom for the List 'read twice and answer once'.

Waiting for the flak.
Craig
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