Image URL via Dragging

David Thompson dthmpsn1 at illinois.edu
Fri Jul 25 11:28:43 PDT 2008


>I've been trying to put together a procedure that can obtain the url
>of an image if the image is dragged from a web page to a Panorama
>file. The idea would be to then use webimage( to display the image
>within a Panorama form.  A lot of people don't know how to copy the
>url of an image so it would be a huge interface help.
>
>So far I've found no way to detect the path (url) although Panorama
>definitely knows that something was dropped.
>
>Is this a hopeless pursuit?

If I drop an image from a web page in Safari or FireFox onto the 
Dropalyzer, it shows eleven flavors from the FireFox drop, and twelve 
from the Safari drop. Both cases include "url " and "TEXT" flavors, 
both of which contain the url. Those are the browsers I have to test 
with, and it is the application that initiates the drag (in this case 
the browser) that is responsible for determining how many flavors 
there are, what their names are, and what data they contain. I can 
only say that for Safari and FireFox, it should be fairly simple, and 
you can steal most of the code from the Dropalyzer.

Dave


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