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

[Mike Moser-Booth]

I'll look into it and see if it's something I can handle. I'm a bit
knee deep in my Master's research right now, though, so it might be
slow-going. ;-)

.mmb

2011/9/19 Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans at at.or.at>:
>
> 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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