I've used Drag And Drop to move things around within a Delphi app, and they've
sure made it nice and easy.  But now I want to do something really, really
simple - accept a filename from filemanager &c - and I can't seem to do it.

OnDragOver doesn't get called when I drag a filename from File Manager over
the component.  A cursory glimpse at the VCL source makes it look like there
*isn't* anything to cast 'alien' draggees to a TObject - is this *really* so?

Do I have to do drag 'n drop from out of my app at the API level?
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Yes. Look at "Drag-Drop functions (3.1)" in Deplhi's Winapi help file for the
details, here is some code (make a form with a list box ListBox1):

{---------------------}

uses ShellApi;

procedure TForm1.FormCreate(Sender: TObject);
begin
  DragAcceptFiles(Handle, True);
end;

procedure TForm1.FormDestroy(Sender: TObject);
begin
  DragAcceptFiles(Handle, True);
end;

procedure TForm1.FileDropHandler(var Msg: TWMDropFiles);
const
  qfFileCount = word(-1); {Pass to DragQueryFile to get # of files in operation}
var
  i, c: integer;
  s: array[0..127] of char;
begin
  c := DragQueryFile(Msg.Drop, qfFileCount, nil, 0);
  for i := 0 to c - 1 do
  begin
    DragQueryFile(Msg.Drop, i, @s, 128);
    ListBox1.Items.Add(StrPas(@s));
  end;
  DragFinish(Msg.Drop);
end;

{---------------------}
For the last procedure, add this declaration to the TForm1 object:

    procedure FileDropHandler(var Msg: TWMDropFiles); message WM_DROPFILES;

I have no idea if this even works in Win95 with the Explorer. Not that it
matters to me.

-Tony Lownds (lown0...@maroon.tc.umn.edu)