[Qt-interest] Launch Application when File is dropped on Icon

[John Weeks]

On Dec 9, 2010, at 1:10 PM, Michael Jackson wrote:

> I have been wading through the documentation and google trying to figure out
> what I need to implement in order to have my Qt application launch when a
> file is dragged onto the application Icon. This is on OS X 10.5 with Qt
> built against Cocoa. I have written the appropriate plist file so that the
> bundle knows to accept file drops with certain extensions. The rest seems a
> mystery to me. I tried looking at the "Designer" source code but that is a
> lot of code to wade through when I don't really know what to look for.
>  Apple events maybe?
> 
> Any help or pushes in the right direction is much appreciated.
> 
> Mike Jackson
> Www.bluequartz.net
> 
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Look at QEvent, specifically QEvent::FileOpen and QFileOpenEvent.

Regards,
John Weeks

WaveMetrics, Inc.
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