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Cocoa® Programming
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Cocoa® Programming

by Scott Anguish, Erik M. Buck, Donald A. Yacktman
September 2002
Intermediate to advanced
1272 pages
31h 12m
English
Sams
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Implementing Drag and Drop

Drag and drop on Mac OS X is implemented using a few standard protocols and pasteboards. All drag and drop operations have three major elements, a source, a destination, and the data being dragged. The source and destination are usually NSView objects, but any NSWindow can also be a source or destination. The data being dragged is placed on a pasteboard. A standard pasteboard, NSDragPboard, has been set aside for drag and drop, but it is possible to use a private pasteboard instead if desired.

The term dragging session (or just drag session) is used to describe the whole process from the initiation of a drag at mouse-down until the mouse-up event is received. The source, destination, data, and all mouse-dragged events ...

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