>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 Craig, I think you need a little flack. :) That kind of attitude could yield "read twice and then not answer for spite." Better to be misinterpreted than ignored. I don't understand your being annoyed. Weekends aren't the best time for taking advantage of the maximum pool of response-ability regardless. Jonathan's reponse was merely his factual perception of your letter, and a wide ranging reply. A re-read of that didn't seem to warrant any taking of that personally. In fact, my first inclination on reading your initial post was to ship you my Slide Freebie folder dragging code which gives you the name like you like, then I re-read your letter again, and saw the Window thing...so errors of interpretation from skimming are a universal possibility. :) You need a drag and drop approach here. FinderInfo won't work for a drag onto a window. Check into the DragNDrop FLTR in the PG Headers folder in the FB^3 Compiler Extensions folder until the correct URL is posted. Alain fixed a couple of errors in that though, so his version will be better suited for your use. You may need to add your own drag "flavor" or type. Try this URL he posted in the beta list back on 8/17. It works. < http://euro.futurebasic.com/download/DNDNew2.sea.hqx > Don't be upset when you see the self extractor talking in French. :) Robert Covington