Creating a drag and drop converter?

Does anyone know if there is a simple way to create a drag and drop converter type application?
I have a small command line application that converts an input file to an output file. It can take a few extra options, but these aren't necessary. To make this functionality available to more people I would like to convert it into a simple "drag and drop" style applcation, which would call the binary.
Does anyone have any recommendations or pointers to a tutorial on doing something similar? I am a bit of a newbie in terms of Mac development and I am thinking this could be a practical way of getting me introduced?

You might take a look at Pashua - it is designed to tack a GUI onto things that don't have one. Otherwise, you are probably looking at something more serious, such as Xcode.

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http://helpx.adobe.com/captivate/kb/top-issues-captivate-8.html

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What I am saying is:
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Yeah that is the general idea but that is more of a "lift and drop", i want to add the same thing as when you:
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I want to be able to create the following if possible:
Create five words that make up a sentence and they are mixed up in order. So basically I would turn each word into a Movie clip perhaps.
I would then like to assign a target hotspot for each word so that a user can drag the words into the correct order.
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Hi,
I am a teacher and my school has recently upgraded to Adobe Design Premium. Our previous version was about 5 versions out of date.
I teach A Level which requires students to create an Interactice Multimedia product.
In the previous 6 years, I have taught students how to create simple drag and drop game with dynamic text responses.
Since the upgrade to Actionscript 3.0 the dynamic text response has ceased working.
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blie_btn is the instance of the object drawin on the stage. In AS3 you have to assign a even listener, in this case MOUSE_DOWN, and MOUSE_UP, as we want the drag to stop if the mouse is not clicked. Then we fire the functions, and tell the object to start drag.
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I have a problem creating a drag and drop function for a certain task. The task is as stated below:
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My mp4 movie files used to transfer from computer to iPad but now they will not Tried dragging and dropping to iTunes library but won't work anymore Plse help

I have mp4 movie files that i am trying to transfer to my ipad and it will no longer work. They will not copy to my iTunes library. I used to be able to transfer/drag and drop converted movies to my iTunes are the mp4 files maybe too big Although I have plenty of space

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http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1451
Re-creating the iTunes Library file
Note: After re-creating your library, any devices that you sync with iTunes (Apple TV, iPod, iPhone, iPad) will see your iTunes library as a new library and will completely resync. The next sync with such a device will take longer and may reset some options since your rebuilt library isn't familiar to the device.
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Microsoft Windows Vista
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Microsoft Windows 7
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Mac OS X
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Good morning.
I am attempting to use the drag and drop learning interaction
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for use in a Captivate based e-learning exercise.
I create the drag and drop just fine in Flash, and it looks
perfect when I publish it in Flash, etc.
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but they will not "drop" where they are supposed to.
Thinking maybe I broke the template, I went ahead and just
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Drag and Drop Interaction Scoring

Hi-
I've created a drag and drop interaction for a quiz with four
objects. Each object has to match up to the correct spot in order
for the user to get the answer correct. I've done this type of
interactions before successfully and not had a problem with
scoring.
But this time .. the only thing I can see that's different
about this quiz is that I'm not assigning any points in the "Score"
field - I am instead using the Status of Correct Response alone.
I've found that this interaction scoring works perfectly for my
other quiz interactions but there seems to be a problem with the
drag and drop - when the user moves the objects around and
temporarily places an object in the wrong (or maybe even correct)
spot, each of these movements is being racked up as correct in this
interaction So, if there's an ambivalent user they're going to get
many more points than is even supposed to be possible.
I can't see anything different that I've done with this
interaction other than the scoring. I changed to correct response
scoring because it was the only way I could figure out how to reset
the quiz score after the user leaves and comes back. (using
TotalCorrect)
Anyway, I'm open to ideas - even if it's not the scoring -
any help would be appreciated!
Thanks -
Cammia

Don't use the quiz knowledge objects and code yourself...?
You'll find many on here who can help you with hand coding
and probably none
who know much about implementing those KO's who can answer
questions. The
reason is if you know enough to be able to answer questions,
you know enough
to know that these KO's are a short term crutch that cause
long term
problems.
HTH;
Amy
"Cammia" <[email protected]> wrote in
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news:e8jm2u$77e$[email protected]..
> Hi-
>
> I've created a drag and drop interaction for a quiz with
four objects.
> Each
> object has to match up to the correct spot in order for
the user to get
> the
> answer correct. I've done this type of interactions
before successfully
> and
> not had a problem with scoring.
>
> But this time .. the only thing I can see that's
different about this quiz
> is
> that I'm not assigning any points in the "Score" field -
I am instead
> using
> the Status of Correct Response alone. I've found that
this interaction
> scoring
> works perfectly for my other quiz interactions but there
seems to be a
> problem
> with the drag and drop - when the user moves the objects
around and
> temporarily
> places an object in the wrong (or maybe even correct)
spot, each of these
> movements is being racked up as correct in this
interaction So, if
> there's an
> ambivalent user they're going to get many more points
than is even
> supposed to
> be possible.
>
> I can't see anything different that I've done with this
interaction other
> than
> the scoring. I changed to correct response scoring
because it was the only
> way
> I could figure out how to reset the quiz score after the
user leaves and
> comes
> back. (using TotalCorrect)
>
> Anyway, I'm open to ideas - even if it's not the scoring
- any help would
> be
> appreciated!
>
> Thanks -
> Cammia
>

Possible Bug with Drag-and-Drop Being Published via HTML5 - Getting "Undefined" Error When Dragging Object

Hello,
I came up with a way to use drag-and-drop interactions that will take advantage of file input so that I may create a drag-and-drop interaction that uses one draggable object over and over allowing multiple scoring/tracking possibilities. Example use...is having the draggable object be dynamic in that it randomly changes its text so that a learner can drag a term it's possible classification.........thus allowing the possibility of having many terms easily loaded without having to redo a drag-and-drop interaction for each needed terms/classifications updates/changes.
My Issue: When using a variable to represent the text for a draggable Smart Shape object, I'm getting the error message "undefined" when, clicking/pressing on the object, as well as during the drag of the object. This issue occurs when publishing the project in an HTML5 format. Flash interestingly enough seems to work perfect...but we are not interested in publishing via Flash any longer.
To better help you explore this error message, I've set up a test project so that you can see when and how the "undefined" message shows up during a drag-and-drop interaction. I've also included the Captivate 8 project file used to make the exploration project I'm sharing in this post.
Link to Captivate project I created for you all to explore "undefined" error message": http://iti.cscc.edu/drag_and_drop_bug/
Link to this Captivate 8 Project file: http://iti.cscc.edu/drag_and_drop_bug.cptx
It's pretty interesting how things react in this demo, please try the following actions to see some interesting happenings:
Drag the Yellow (or variable drag box) to the drag target.
Drag Black Hello square to Drag target and click undo or reset - watch the undefined message come up on the Yellow (or variable drag box).
Drag the Yellow (or variable drag box) to the drag target and then use the undo or reset.
Move both draggable boxes to the drag target and use the undo and reset buttons...
Anyhow, I know you all are sharp and will run the demo through its paces.
I'd really be very honored if anyone help me figure out how I could (when publishing out to HTML5) no longer have the "undefined" error message show up when using drag-and-drop with a variable for shape text. This technique has been well received at the college I work at...and I have many future project requests for using such an idea on a variety of similar interactions. I'd love see a solution or see if this might be a bug Adobe may be able to fix!
I tried to find a solution to the issue documented here for quite some time, but I was not able to find anyone with this problem much less attempting the idea I'm sharing in the help request - save the darn "undefined" message that comes up!
Many thanks in advance for any help and/or direction that you all may be able to provide,
Paul

Hello,
I just wanted to supply a minor update related to my drag-and-drop question/issue stated above:
I did another test using Captivate 7, and found that the undefined error (publishing as HTML5) does not appear and the variable data remains visible - except the variable data turns very small and does not honor any font size related settings.
I did go ahead and submit this to Adobe as a possible bug today.
Thanks again for any help related to this issue. If the issued documented above is solved, it will allow many amazing things to be done using Captivate's drag-and-drop for both regular type projects as well as interaction development for iBooks!
Matter of fact if this issue gets fixed, I'll publish a Blog entry (or video) on way's I've used Captivate's drag-and-drop to create dynamic learning activities for Higher Ed. and for use in iBooks.
~ Paul

Drag and Drop game with only two targets

I created a drag and drop activity where their are five boxes that are supposed to go in to two columns in any order. I found a tutorial online that I based this activity off of.
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var score:Number = 0;
var objectoriginalX:Number;
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dormancy_mc.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_UP, dropObject);
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event.target.startDrag(true);
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objectoriginalX = event.target.x;
objectoriginalY = event.target.y;
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event.target.stopDrag();
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event.target.buttonMode = false;
event.target.x = matchingTarget.x;
event.target.y = matchingTarget.y;
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var matchingTargetName:String =(event.target.name).substring(0, 1);
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Summary
E-mail to a list is not available in SharePoint Online (yet) and it is difficult to move e-mails from Outlook to a SharePoint list for collaboration, storage and search. The following steps will put a file on the users desktop that will open a SharePoint list and then you can drag and drop e-mails into the proper folder.
Step 1
Create a drag and drop folder location for SharePoint Online e-mails
1.       Go to your SharePoint Online shared documents location
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