Dragging a "file" from Omnis to the operating system.

[Mike Matthews - Omnis]

Hello Andrew,

The Apple Apps and others, seem to be able to drag and drop data between themselves.

MS apps can drag and drop between MS apps, but not from Word to Mail.  I haven’t tried on a Windows OS yet.  I expect that Word would draw and drop into Outlook for instance.

I can drag text from Mail into Word as well, but not the other way around. Now that may be due to Apple being super clever or being tied into the OS.

Dragging text from Word to the desktop creates a text clipping.  Likewise from Mail, a text clipping file is created.

It would seem that this might be all we should expect, a text clipping kind of document if dropped onto desktop, or just out side of Omnis.

I wonder what the limitations are, and why Apple can do this, while others can’t?  I shall pass onto Omnis for comment.

Mike Matthews

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On 22 Mar 2025, at 14:10, Stefan Csomor <csomor at advancedconcepts.ch> wrote:

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Hi Andrew

I have the same requirement. Right now AFAIK we cannot add custom data types neither to the clipboard nor to drag-drop operations.
So a +1 from me for the wish list 😉

Best,

Stefan

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Datum: Freitag, 21. März 2025 um 20:15
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Betreff: Dragging a "file" from Omnis to the operating system.

Hello,

Does Omnis support dragging outside of Omnis?

If I have a path to a PDF file in Omnis. Is there any way for me to "drag"
that item from inside an omnis window, and drop it on the operating system
desktop or specific folder? (which would then copy the file over for
example).



Andrew
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