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I just found a video online that shows files being dragged from a Mac to a PC and vice versa. I'm developing a backup and sync application, and I'd like to see if I could implement this. How is this accomplished? What libraries are available to do this, and what has been your experience with implementing this? Are there any gotchas to incorporating functionality like this? |
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There's no toolkit per se; they most likely built a protocol on top of TCP/IP (i.e. on the application layer) to accomplish this, and implemented it in a program written for each OS. On each OS the program would access the system APIs to do things like intercept the mouse/keyboard and clipboard, and then send/receive that over the network just as any other browser or multiplayer game or network application would. There have always been several ways before Dropbox to share files; for Windows computers, OS X has been able to access folders shared on a Windows network shares for a very long time. As for Windows, file sharing is a feature that's been around since Windows 95, as far as I know. Other programs similar to this one include Synergy for Win/Mac/*nix, and Multiplicity and Mouse Without Borders for Windows. |
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They have their special program running on both computers and they know of one another. |
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