AppleScript drag-and-drop interface to shell script

This is actually a cross-over question with AppleScript, but I'll try here first since I don't visit the AppleScript forum very often...
I have a shell script which takes as a parameter a file name and does something interesting with the file, but generates no terminal output except for a possible error message. What I'm looking for is an AppleScript script that would, at the Finder level, allow me to drag and drop a file onto it causing it to run my shell script passing to it the name of the file.
Having very limited experience with AppleScript, I'm hoping someone has something similar that they'd be willing to offer up.

Hi Ken,
   The following is a script I wrote as a test a while back. It's pretty simple so I imagine you can edit it to suit you needs.
on open filelist
   repeat with i in filelist
      do shell script "echo " & POSIX path of i & " >>~/out.txt"
   end repeat
end open
Gary
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> implementaion of drag and drop in a way that was simple
to use.
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limiting. I'm going
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> Does DW CS3 Ajax tools provide a somewhat easy way to
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> drop
> without me having to write to much Java by hand?
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_Darrel

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I'm surprised that there isn't an Active X control that can do this more
easily? Would
be curious to find out if there is - although we aren't really embracing the
use of
them within Forte because it locks you into the Microsoft arena.
---------------------- Forwarded by Peggy Lynn Adrian/AM/LLY on 02/03/98 01:33
PM ---------------------------
"Stokesbary, Michael" <[email protected]> on 02/03/98 12:19:52 PM
Please respond to "Stokesbary, Michael" <[email protected]>
To: "'[email protected]'" <[email protected]>
cc:
Subject: Problems with ListViews Drag and Drop
I am just curious as to other people's experiences with the ListView
widget when elements in it are set to be draggable. In particular, I am
currently trying to design an interface that looks a lot like Windows
Explorer where a TreeView resides on the left side of the window and a
ListView resides on the right side. Upon double clicking on the
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ListView, otherwise, it was a file and it is brought up in Microsoft
Word. All this works great if I don't have the elements in the ListView
widget set to be draggable. If they are set to be draggable, then I am
finding that the DoubleClick event seems to get registered twice along
with the ObjectDrop event. This is not good because if I double click
and the current node is a folder, then it will expand this folder in the
TreeView, display the contents in the ListView, grab the node that is
now displayed where that node used to be displayed and run the events
for that as well. What this means, is that if this is a file, then Word
is just launched and no big deal. Unfortunately, if this happens to be
another directory, then the previous directory is dropped into this
current directory and a recursive copy gets performed, giving me one
heck of a deep directory tree for that folder.
Has anybody else seen this, or am I the only lucky one to experience.
If need be, I do have this exported in a .pex file if anybody needs to
look at it more closely.
Thanks in advance.
Michael Stokesbary
Software Engineer
GTE Government Systems Corporation
tel: (650) 966-2975
e-mail: [email protected]

here is the required code....
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Android - Kitkat 4.4.2
Tab models - Lenovo A7600H and Samsung Tab4 T531
Please refer to a previous case raised on the same issue here at this link (Case 1029615) - https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1029615
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Flash on Android is no longer supported by Adobe. While Firefox does support basic functionality we mainly focus on legacy video applications. You may run into issues with Flash and Geckoview. I doubt we have any resources to support that configuration.

Drag and Drop operation of SWT is not working in windows 7

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