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

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

Good luck with your Masters' research, just let me know on this list or
#dataflow if you have questions.

.hc

On Wed, 2011-09-21 at 12:58 -0400, Mike Moser-Booth wrote:
> 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
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> 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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