Re: [rox-users] Atom did not contain a leafname

[Stuart L. <aqu...@kr...>]

Thomas Leonard spoo'd forth:
> On Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 12:27:52AM +0000, Stuart Langridge wrote:
>> I'm trying to display, using Rox-Lib2, a savebox which will grab the
>> content of a URI of my choice and download it to the place the user
>> saves the savebox to. To clarify, imagine I already have a URI in the
>> "uri" variable. I do:
>> 
>> savebox = saving.SaveBox(saver(uri),
>>                 os.path.split(urlparse.urlparse(uri)[2])[1],
>>                 'application/octet-stream')
> 
>> My savebox pops up fine. It also puts a default filename in the textbox
>> inside the savebox, and if I enter a full path into that textbox then
>> clicking "Save" works fine. However, if I drag the icon to a filer
>> window, then the filer (I think) throws the error:
>> 
>> XdndDirectSave0 target provided, but the atom XdndDirectSave0 (type
>> text/plain) did not contain a leafname
>> 
>> What does this mean?
> 
> It means it couldn't read the property (set in ROX-Lib by
> _write_xds_property).
> 
> What happens if you replace the second argument to the constructor with
> something like the string "MyFile"?

The textbox in the savebox is prefilled with "MyFile", and I get the
same error when I try and drag the icon from the savebox to a filer
window...

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