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From: ali@polya.Stanford.EDU (Ali T. Ozer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: WorkSpace like ...
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Date: 26 Jun 89 06:53:52 GMT
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In article <133000004@silver> tsui@silver.bacs.indiana.edu writes:
>Does anyone know how workspace implemets view by icon?  Is it a scrollview
>with its contentview set to matrix of cells that are associated with icons?
>I am trying to write something that allows me to drag an icon from it to
>another window(same application), virtually like you drag a icon(TIFF) from
>work space to the demo program icon. 

Simply register a window from your application with the Workspace
Manager and you will get a message whenever the user drags a file icon
from a Workspace Manager window to your window. Take a look at the
DrawDocument class in the source for the Draw program, provided in
/NextDeveloper/Examples/Draw.

As you might guess, this indicates that you need not be concerned with the
exact implementation of the Workspace icon view window. (It probably is a
ScrollView whose docView is a custom view...)

Ali Ozer, NeXT Developer Support
aozer@NeXT.com