Drag Drop delegate for NSView could not set an attribute

Question

I am using NSView delegate to read the dragged excel values. For this I have subclassed NSView. My code is like-

@interface SSDragDropView : NSView
    {
        NSString *textToDisplay;
    }
    @property(nonatomic,retain) NSString *textToDisplay; // setters/getters

    @synthesize textToDisplay;// setters/getters

    @implementation SSDragDropView
    - (NSDragOperation)draggingEntered:(id <NSDraggingInfo>)sender{
        [self setNeedsDisplay: YES];
        return NSDragOperationGeneric;
    }

    - (void)draggingExited:(id <NSDraggingInfo>)sender{
        [self setNeedsDisplay: YES];
    }

    - (BOOL)prepareForDragOperation:(id <NSDraggingInfo>)sender {
        [self setNeedsDisplay: YES];
        return YES;
    }


   - (BOOL)performDragOperation:(id < NSDraggingInfo >)sender {
        NSArray *draggedFilenames = [[sender draggingPasteboard] propertyListForType:NSFilenamesPboardType];
        if ([[[draggedFilenames objectAtIndex:0] pathExtension] isEqual:@"xls"]){
            return YES;
        } else {
            return NO;
        }
    }

    - (void)concludeDragOperation:(id <NSDraggingInfo>)sender{
        NSArray *draggedFilenames = [[sender draggingPasteboard] propertyListForType:NSFilenamesPboardType];
        NSURL *url =   [NSURL fileURLWithPath:[draggedFilenames objectAtIndex:0]];
       NSString *textDataFile = [NSString stringWithContentsOfURL:url usedEncoding:nil error:nil]; //This text is the original excel text and its getting displayed.
    [self setTextToDisplay:textDataFile];
       }

I am setting the textDataFile value to a string attribute of that class. Now I am using SSDragDropView attribute value in some other class like-

SSDragDropView *dragView = [SSDragDropView new];
    NSLog(@"DragView Value is %@",[dragView textToDisplay]); 

But I am getting null each time. Is it like I can not set an attribute value in those delegate methods?

Answer 1

The above problem can be resolved just by declaring a global variable in your SSDragDropView.h class.

#import <Cocoa/Cocoa.h>
NSString *myTextToDisplay;
@interface SSDragDropView : NSView
{

The same can be set inside the desired delegate method

- (void)concludeDragOperation:(id <NSDraggingInfo>)sender {

// .... //Your Code
NSString *textDataFile = [NSString stringWithContentsOfURL:url usedEncoding:nil error:nil];
myTextToDisplay = textDataFile;
// .... //Your Code
}

:)

Answer 2

Add

[dragView registerForDraggedTypes:[NSArray arrayWithObjects:NSFilenamesPboardType, nil]];  

- (NSDragOperation)draggingEntered:(id <NSDraggingInfo>)sender{

    NSPasteboard *pboard = [sender draggingPasteboard];
    NSArray *paths = [pboard propertyListForType:NSFilenamesPboardType];
    NSLog(@"%@",paths);
    [self setNeedsDisplay: YES];
    return NSDragOperationGeneric;
}  

Below code will print nil because you are not dragging anything on NSView.

SSDragDropView *dragView = [SSDragDropView new];
    NSLog(@"DragView Value is %@",[dragView textToDisplay]);