drag drop of files and folders

[keyless]

So Smart Software has a great tutorial on drag and drop. I've learned a lot from this tut and have implimented drag and drop file handeling very well. I've also implimented drag and drop folder handeling in another test program. What I cant figure out, is how to get both working together. Like if a file and folder were both dragged to my program and I wanted to copy the file to one url and the folder to another url.

[keyless]

Is there any info out there on using Drag and Drop for Folders.

Does the folder go into the dragdata array just like files do?

[Klaus]

Hi keyless,

unfortunately there is nothing like: the dragdata["folders"]
Everything is listed in: the dragdata["files"]

I usually check for files or folders in my handlers like:

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...
repeat for each line i in the dragdata["files"]
  if there is a file i then
   ## do stuff with files...
  end if
  if there is a folder i then
   ## do stuff with folders...
  end if
end repeat
...

A bit unhandy, but works fine for me


Best

Klaus

[BvG]

Test it yourself. Example code for a field:

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on dragDrop
  put the dragData["files"] into me
end dragDrop

on mouseEnter
  set the acceptDrop to true
end mouseEnter

[keyless]

Thanks Klaus, I think the "If there is folder" part of your code will work nicely in a loop that I already have.

@ BvG - Yeah, I already have that part down, the drag drop was never the issue, I just didn't know it was as simple as "If there is a folder", to deal with the folders. The documentation makes it seem the dragData only takes in files.

Thanks for the help.