I need to get the URLs of all files dragged/dropped into my application from Finder.
I have a Cocoa app running on 10.6 which does this by using the new 10.6 NSPasteboard APIs which handle multiple items on the pasteboard. I'm trying to backport this app to 10.5. How do I handle this on 10.5?
If I do something like below, I only get the first URL:
NSArray *pasteTypes = [NSArray arrayWithObjects: NSURLPboardType, nil];
NSString *bestType = [pboard availableTypeFromArray:pasteTypes];
if (bestType != nil) {
NSURL *url = [NSURL URLFromPasteboard:pboard];
}
The IKImageKit programming topics
outline a way to do this like so (paraphrased):
NSData *data = [pasteboard dataForType:NSFilenamesPboardType];
NSArray *filenames = [NSPropertyListSerialization
propertyListFromData:data
mutabilityOption:kCFPropertyListImmutable
format:nil
errorDescription:&errorDescription];
See here: Image Kit Programming Guide: Supporting Drag and Drop