QDrop 1.1.8 review

QDrop allows drag and drop of files and folders into 4D forms.

License: Demo OS: Mac OS X File size: 1518K Developer: Escape Buy Now Price: $134.00 Updated: 22 May 2006

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QDrop allows drag and drop of files and folders into 4D forms. It lets you build intuitive, user-friendly interfaces for all kinds of 4D database applications. With QDrop your software becomes simpler and more appealing to end-users.

QDrop offers a plug-in area that you can put on any 4D form and use as a drop zone. The QDrop area can be made big enough to cover the entire form window, or it can be placed behind specific form objects, other plug-in areas, and so on. QDrop can easily revamp those parts of a database that involve working with files and folders, and is particularly suited to image databases.

Configure each QDrop area to accept the filetypes that you want it to accept. QDrop uses 4-character MacOS filetypes; on Windows, use 4D's MAP FILE TYPES command to associate Windows file extensions with MacOS filetypes.To configure a QDrop area, create an array of droppable file types and assign it to the area; the area will automatically react to the designated file types and also:
• users will get a visual feedback that the drag+drop is accepted
• developers will receive a drop event and they will be able to program how the drop action should be handled.

Magic file types are defined by QDrop to facilitate the developer's job:
• any* denotes that all files are accepted
• fold denotes that folders are accepted
• qti* means that all images understood by QuickTime are accepted
• qtm* accepts all movie formats understood by QuickTime

If, for example, you want to use QDrop for importing image files that you will subsequently handle with QPix, you don't need to configure the drop area separately for JPEG, GIF, PICT, TIFF, etc files. Simply configure it for qti* and all these types will be accepted.

Limitations:
Without a license key the plug-ins work in evaluation mode for 30 min, enough to see how they work or even run a demo. For another 30 min, restart 4D.

Requirements:
4D versions 6.06 through 2004.