[PD] drag-n-drop support in Pd-extended (TkDND)

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

That would be very useful, great idea!  I'll happily help you get that  
going if you are willing to take it on.  I don't think it would be  
very hard to do.  Basically, just take the plugin I wrote, but bind to  
the canvas widget that the object makes rather than the patch window.   
Then it would call a Tcl proc which would send the info to pd to be  
output from the outlet.  hcs/cursor is an example of that.

What I've been thinking of doing is have file association patches, so  
like wav.pd, mov.pd, mp3,pd, etc.  Then when you drop a .wav file onto  
a canvas, it would copy-n-paste the contents of wav.pd where you  
dropped the .wav file.

.hc

On Sep 19, 2011, at 12:53 PM, Mike Moser-Booth wrote:

> A bit of a variation on what João is suggesting, but I think a simple
> [cnv]-like gui object that will take a drag-and-drop file and output
> the path and filename would be nice. Something that just defines an
> area to drop on. Then you could just do simple things like stick the
> [cnv] behind an array and drop a soundfile on it to load, for example.
>
> .mmb
>
> On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 9:05 AM, João Pais <jmmmpais at googlemail.com>  
> wrote:
>> one of the first things to do could be a drag+drop version of  
>> openpanel. I
>> suggest to make it with an "take whole canvas" option - so that a  
>> file can
>> be dropped anywhere in the canvas, and it's symbol location goes to  
>> the
>> relevant patch sequence.
>>
>>>
>>> Patko and I just got TkDND working on Windows and included Pd- 
>>> extended
>>> 0.43.  That means tomorrows nightly build should have it included,  
>>> and
>>> its ready for scripting with.  TkDND allows Pd to handle drag-n-drop
>>> events, so you can do things like drop a file onto the Pd window  
>>> to open
>>> it (implemented in the attached plugin) or drop a pd patch onto a  
>>> canvas
>>> to make an object (also kind of implemented in the plugin).
>>>
>>> There are lots of interesting ideas possible, I'm hoping you will  
>>> play
>>> with it and see what kinds of stuff we can do.  I forgot who  
>>> originally
>>> implemented the TkDND stuff for Pd, but this is based on that  
>>> work, so
>>> thanks for that.
>>>
>>> .hc
>>
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