[Gambas-user] File Chooser Drag and Drop

[bb]

On Sun, 2022-07-17 at 13:58 +0930, bb wrote:
> On Sun, 2022-07-17 at 00:22 -0400, T Lee Davidson wrote:
> > On 7/16/22 23:16, Bruce Steers wrote:
> > > 
> > > 
> > > On Sun, 17 Jul 2022 at 03:28, sbungay
> > > <sbungay at smartsonsite.com <mailto:sbungay at smartsonsite.com>>
> > > wrote:
> > > 
> > >         Using the file chooser I want to drag one of the files
> > > from
> > > it
> > >     (represented by its icon) to a text area and on dropping it
> > > have the
> > >     text area load the file. Can't seem to get this to work,
> > > anyone
> > > have an
> > >     example project I can examine?
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Drag is not supported in File/Dir chooser
> > > You could import the filechooser files and modify them.
> > > 
> > > BruceS
> > 
> > Well ... I can imagine how disappointing that might be.
> > 
> > Both FileChooser and DirChooser have a Drag method and Drag,
> > DragLeave, DragMove, and MouseDrag events leading one to believe 
> > that they do support Drag & Drop. But, there is no mention in the
> > documentation that they do not.
> > 
> > 
> Not only that but the DblClick event is similarly "not available".
> 
> I think that these issues are related to the fact that both controls
> use these events internally (and consume them). IOW you can drag
> files
> between directories, but I have no idea what it uses the DblClick
> event
> for, apart from it pops up a weird message.
> 
> b
> 
> p.s. I thought the DblClick might have been a solution but no.

Hmmm, it might be possible. See here
http://gambaswiki.org/wiki/doc/dragndrop

I haven't tried it

b