Dragged and dropped file paths not plain text?

[japino]

I'm working on OS X and I've created a field in a stack which accepts files being dragged into it. The field then displays the file paths. The code is this:

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on dragEnter
  set acceptDrop to true
end dragEnter

on dragDrop
put the dragData into me
  pass dragDrop 
end dragDrop

However, the field value does not seem to be what I'm expecting. I cannot use a repeat loop to get all the lines of the field and do something which each of the files.

Suppose the line 1 in the field reads:
/Users/JohnDoe/myfile.txt

Then when I use

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answer line 1 of field "Field"

I just get "/", the first character.

I'm on Livecode 7 now, I'm pretty sure this was different before... Is there an easy way to convert the field value back to normal text?

[Klaus]

HI japino,

hm, just tested your code with LC 7.1.2 RC1 on OS X 10.11.3 and it works as exspected!?
Does it work if you add "files" (which is the official syntax)?:
...
put the dragData["files"] into me
...


Best

Klaus

[japino]

Thank you (again) Klaus!

When changing the code to...
put the dragData["files"] into me
...everything then works as expected again.

When I now ask for a particular line in the field, I get the complete line again instead of just a character.

Your fast reply is much appreciated!

[Klaus]

My pleasure!