Macintosh Easy Open integrates with the Drag Manager, providing data type translation services automatically and without any additional effort on your part. This means you can simply support your application s data types and count on Macintosh Easy Open to provide automatic translation for data that is dropped into and dragged out of application windows. Applications can also find out where data was dropped in the Finder for example, that it was dropped into the Trash. The Drag Manager supports drag and drop of any data to the latest Finder. It creates clipping files that users can then use as clipboards and drag into an application when the data is needed.
Users can keep common data handy as clipping files.
To install Macintosh Drag and Drop on earlier systems, simply place the Macintosh Drag and Drop extension file in your Extensions folder and reboot. This will allow you to use all the programmatic interfaces described in the Drag Manager Programmer s Guide. If you do not have System 7 Pro, then for development you may install the Finder version 7.1.3, Dragging Enabler, and Clipping Extension files on System 7.1. The AppleScript developer's kit also includes Finder version 7.1.3 and you should be careful to always install the Dragging Enabler file on System 7.1 with that Finder. You will not be able to drag any files on the Desktop without the Dragging Enabler on this development configuration.