Drag&Drop of multiple files under Windows ?

[marten]

This is a problem I've never managed to make it work - perhaps because I do not know very much about Windows API (and so on).

If I use native drag & drop I managed to drag & drop a single file (in the short file name specification), but I never managed to drag & drop multiple files from the Windows Explorer to a VASmalltalk application - I always only see the first file, but not the rest.

Can anyone give me a hint, how this can be done ?

Marten

[Ralf]

Hello Marten,

I don't if Smalltalk can handle multiple files, but you can use the Window API, show WIN32 Help API for message WM_DROPFILES and the API function for you is probably "DragQueryFile" look there. This function gives informations how many file are dragged and this function returns the file name for specified dragged number of file. So you can iterate over all numbers and then require the file name for the actual number.

Perhaps this link http://www.codingcrew.de/programmierung/win32hlp.php is helpfully.

I hope this can help you.

Best regards
Ralf

Here the discription for WM_DROPFILES the origin for drag and drop of files

The WM_DROPFILES message is sent when the user releases the left mouse button while the cursor is in the window of an application that has registered itself as a recipient of dropped files.

WM_DROPFILES
hDrop = (HANDLE) wParam; // handle of internal drop structure


Parameters

hDrop

Value of wParam. Identifies an internal structure describing the dropped files. This handle is used by the DragFinish, DragQueryFile, and DragQueryPoint functions to retrieve information about the dropped files.



Return Values

An application should return zero if it processes this message.

See Also

DragAcceptFiles, DragFinish, DragQueryFile, DragQueryPoint