[Gambas-user] Convert path of drop file

Benoît Minisini gambas at ...1...
Fri Nov 26 14:32:16 CET 2010


> Hi,
> 
> I try to get input file by drag and drop file from Nautilus onto my form.
> But the path that I got is HTML format, so I have trouble with the path
> including space or unicode characters.
> How to convert this path to normal path so I can work with OPEN statement.

When receiving a drop, you may receive the data in different mime types, so 
you must check all the mime-types you get first, otherwise you will get the 
default, which may not be what you need.

Look at Drag.Formats and Drag.Paste().

Regards,

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Benoît Minisini




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