Regression with drag and drop

[hilaire]

PasteUpMorph>>dropFiles:

Looks wrong in P7 and P8.
A Write stream is created while a Read stream is expected.
Result: drag and drop of a sketch file does not work anymore in DrGeo.
Should it be a binary read stream or just a read stream?
With a read stream it works fine for DrGeo, not sure about other.

See #2634 too

PasteUpMorph-dropFiles.st.txt

[svenvc]

This is indeed not such a simple situation, since it requires insight into the services framework, which is a bit quirky (from what I have seen of it). I certainly don't understand all aspect of it.

I think that the only sensible thing to do is to pass a FileReference object around, not an open stream, since after all, that is what you are dropping, and then leave to opening of the file to the latest possible moment.

[hilaire]

In the meantime, could we reverse to a situation equivalent to the previous one?
=>A read stream is passed on to the drop event handlers

[svenvc]

you said it has to respond to #name, which the new streams don't do and never will, hence my suggestion

[hilaire]

Ah yes indeed.

[tomooda]

+1 for passing a FileReference. I admit I have a same problem to read a dropped stream and hacked the stream object as a nasty workaround.