Dan Nigrin

I'd like to be able to drop a file onto my standalone's icon, to both launch the application, as well as do something with the file that was dragged onto it. I know about the unsupported / undocumented "opened" object (

https://cycling74.com/forums/drag-and-drop-onto-max-icon-in-dock

), but it only works when the standalone is already running when the file is dragged onto the finder icon (all this is on the Mac, I haven't yet tried on Windows).

I'd like to be able to drop a file onto my standalone's icon, to both launch the application, as well as do something with the file that was dragged onto it.  I know about the unsupported / undocumented "opened" object (https://cycling74.com/forums/drag-and-drop-onto-max-icon-in-dock), but it only works when the standalone is already running when the file is dragged onto the finder icon (all this is on the Mac, I haven't yet tried on Windows).

I'd like to be able to drop a file onto my standalone's icon, to both launch the application, as well as do something with the file that was

drop-file-onto-max-standalone-to-launch-it

seems like might have to research how apps know what’s being dragged on them before even being launched, and then figure out a way to hand that info to a Max app….

should be fairly simple using applescript, but of course that is what you want to avoid i suppose.

That is a task for an external. Getting command line arguments of our process is possible on both OS.

Yeah, gonna have to get learning then....

Hi Dan, I did some tests with a standalone on Mac. I didn't know before the info.plist is defining which file types can be dropped on the app icon and how they are handled. So I can't get the filename as a command line argument. Instead Max opens the file in an editor/viewer window.

Yeah, that has been my experience as well....

drop file onto Max standalone to launch it