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'Drag & drop' doesn't work
I just want to D&D an HDF5 file onto the HDFCompass main window and magic things should happen...
This is a guide for configure drag and drop on the mac: http://wiki.wxpython.org/Optimizing%20for%20Mac%20OS%20X. It seems py2app specific though - I'm not sure if it will work with pyinstaller.
Having it working with py2app can help to test it with pyinstaller that have open this ticket: https://github.com/pyinstaller/pyinstaller/issues/1309
Something is moving to fix this issue on the Pyinstaller side: https://github.com/pyinstaller/pyinstaller/pull/2219
@giumas - have you been able to get it working with the pyinstaller branch?
Just to be clear, the argv emulation in pyinstaller and/or py2app only affects the startup of the application. For example, when you double click on a document to open your application, this functionality allows you to pick off the filename of what was dropped, so that your application can automatically open it.
It does not affect at all a drag/drop of a file onto your application. For that, you need to handle MacOpenFile or whatever appropriate AppleEvent.
Actually, I think that wx.PyDropTarget already has everything you need, and it works on the mac...at least, that's what a cursory review of some of my current code tells me. But to handle things like the user drag/dropping a file onto the dock icon or some such, see
https://wxpython.org/Phoenix/docs/html/wx.PyApp.html#wx.PyApp.MacOpenFiles
@dhyams Do you use wx classic or phoenix? If classic, are you able to drag&drop + associate a wx 'frozen' application using your PyInstaller branch?
FYI: HDF Compass is currently using classic and Python 2. The idea would be to switch to Python 3 as soon as phoenix is officially released.
I am currently using wxPython 3.0.0.0 classic, and Python 2.7. Yes, I can associate a document with my app, and it works; I think that's what you mean. (In my case, for example, I associate a .gxp with my app, and then the .gxp is double clicked in the Finder, it runs my app, and my app reads sys.argv to get the filename). Note that it takes a modification to the Info.plist to cause the association to occur to begin with.
Drag and drop of a file onto my application works too, but I don't think that has anything to do with my modifications in pyinstaller/pyinstaller#2219. That's what I was trying to say a comment up; you handle a file drag/drop with wx.PyDropTarget.