Accepting drag operations in an NSCollectionView subclass

Question

I've subclassed NSCollectionView and I'm trying to receive dragged files from the Finder. I'm receiving draggingEntered: and returning an appropriate value, but I'm never receiving prepareForDragOperation: (nor any of the methods after that in the process). Is there something obvious I'm missing here?

Code:

- (void)awakeFromNib
{
    [self registerForDraggedTypes:[NSArray arrayWithObjects:NSFilenamesPboardType, nil]];
}

- (NSDragOperation)draggingEntered:(id <NSDraggingInfo>)sender
{
    NSLog(@"entered"); //Happens
    NSPasteboard *pboard;
    NSDragOperation sourceDragMask;

    sourceDragMask = [sender draggingSourceOperationMask];
    pboard = [sender draggingPasteboard];

    if ([[pboard types] containsObject:NSFilenamesPboardType])
    {
        NSLog(@"copy"); //Happens
        return NSDragOperationCopy;
    }

    return NSDragOperationNone;
}

- (BOOL)prepareForDragOperation:(id <NSDraggingInfo>)sender
{
    NSLog(@"prepare"); //Never happens
    return YES;
}

Answer 1

I went through this a while ago. It seemed counterintuitive to me, but the only way I could get it to work was to set up the associated scroll view as the drop target.

Answer 2

You might want to try these delegate methods from the NSCollectionViewDelegate Protocol

- (NSDragOperation)collectionView:(NSCollectionView *)collectionView validateDrop:(id <NSDraggingInfo> )draggingInfo proposedIndex:(NSInteger *)proposedDropIndex dropOperation:(NSCollectionViewDropOperation *)proposedDropOperation;
- (BOOL)collectionView:(NSCollectionView *)collectionView acceptDrop:(id <NSDraggingInfo> )draggingInfo index:(NSInteger)index dropOperation:(NSCollectionViewDropOperation)dropOperation;

- (BOOL)collectionView:(NSCollectionView *)collectionView canDragItemsAtIndexes:(NSIndexSet *)indexes withEvent:(NSEvent *)event;
- (NSImage *)collectionView:(NSCollectionView *)collectionView draggingImageForItemsAtIndexes:(NSIndexSet *)indexes withEvent:(NSEvent *)event offset:(NSPointPointer)dragImageOffset;
- (NSArray *)collectionView:(NSCollectionView *)collectionView namesOfPromisedFilesDroppedAtDestination:(NSURL *)dropURL forDraggedItemsAtIndexes:(NSIndexSet *)indexes;
- (BOOL)collectionView:(NSCollectionView *)collectionView writeItemsAtIndexes:(NSIndexSet *)indexes toPasteboard:(NSPasteboard *)pasteboard;

The first two methods in particular.