Drag 'n' drop in text fields

[richmond62]

klaus posted elsewhere:

"Hi all,

quick question LC 9.5 on macOS 10.14.6:

We can drag'n'drop text into textfields and
this works without any scripting.

We can also drag'n'drop one or more files into
a textfield and the filepath appears in the field
where we dropped the file(s).

However there does not seem to be any message
send to the field when dropping a file, but I want
to catch it."

Here's a thought:

(code of the target field)

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local fldState

on mouseEnter
   if fld "fff" is empty then put "0" into fldState
end mouseEnter

on mouseWithin
   if fld "fff" is empty then
      -- do nothing
   else
      put "1" into fldState
   end if
   if fldState > 0 then
      set the textColor of fld "fff" to red
   end if
end mouseWithin

[Klaus]

Erm... no!

[richmond62]

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pathname is in the field.
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This is also fun:

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on mouseWithin
   put the selectedText of me
end mouseWithin

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[Klaus]

TEXTCHANGED was the magic word!

This does what I want:

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on textChanged
 send "doit" to me in 10
end textChanged

command doit
 put the selectedtext of me
end doit

Please read up my problem again, your solutions are ideal for a problem that I do not have.

[richmond62]

Wow!

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