Comments on: Drag and drop multiple URLs http://lapcatsoftware.com/blog/2006/10/09/drag-and-drop-multiple-urls/ Coding under the close supervision of cats Fri, 09 Jul 2010 18:22:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Peter Hosey http://lapcatsoftware.com/blog/2006/10/09/drag-and-drop-multiple-urls/comment-page-1/#comment-6 Peter Hosey Mon, 09 Oct 2006 21:22:55 +0000 http://lapcatsoftware.com/blog/2006/10/09/drag-and-drop-multiple-urls/#comment-6 <blockquote>There is Apple URL pasteboard type, which turns out to be just NSURLPboardType. Unfortunately, you’ll find in the docs for NSPasteboard that NSURLPboardType carries NSURL data for one file or resource. There can be only one, flatlander!</blockquote> As I mentioned on <a href="http://forums.cocoaforge.com/viewtopic.php?p=70447&sid=f9a37f85ee54f97cfd9767b56d8f1d64#70447" rel="nofollow">the Vienna forum</a>, NSURLPboardType is actually an array plist. So if you don't mind getting your hands dirty (the format could change out from under you), it could be possible to extract multiple URLs from that type. Unfortunately, Safari behaves in accordance with the documentation, and only puts one URL there, so it wouldn't help. (To be clear, I do think that that's a good thing. Apple ignores its documentation enough as it is. :)

There is Apple URL pasteboard type, which turns out to be just NSURLPboardType. Unfortunately, you’ll find in the docs for NSPasteboard that NSURLPboardType carries NSURL data for one file or resource. There can be only one, flatlander!

As I mentioned on the Vienna forum, NSURLPboardType is actually an array plist. So if you don’t mind getting your hands dirty (the format could change out from under you), it could be possible to extract multiple URLs from that type. Unfortunately, Safari behaves in accordance with the documentation, and only puts one URL there, so it wouldn’t help.

(To be clear, I do think that that’s a good thing. Apple ignores its documentation enough as it is. :)

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