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Re: feedback ID for detecting last file drop?

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Subject: Re: feedback ID for detecting last file drop?
From: Charles Yeomans <charles at declareSub dot com>
Date: Wed, 30 May 2007 14:38:53 -0400
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On May 30, 2007, at 1:45 PM, joe at strout dot net wrote:

> The inability to tell when the last of a batch of files dropped on  
> your
> app has been fed to the OpenDocument event is a very old  
> shortcoming of
> RB, discussed in the archives back to 1998 at least.  Yet,  
> amazingly, I
> can't find a feedback report actually requesting that this be fixed.
> Maybe I'm searching under the wrong terms... can anyone find it?
>
> And meanwhile, does anyone have a solution to this problem (of knowing
> when the last file has been processed) more clever than resetting a
> Timer on each OpenDocument call?


How about refactoring your code so as not to depend on the number of  
files dropped?  I don't really understand why one needs to know this  
-- perhaps you could offer an example?

Charles Yeomans
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