Drag and drop files

[Wim S]

Is it possible to drag files from programs such as Windows Explorer into my user interface (e.g. in a text string box)?  The goal is to display the filename in the text string box. According to the help files the EVENT_DRAG and EVEND_DROP events are only valid for trees and splitters

[jr_2005]

Try looking in the Programmers Toolbox (Library->Programmer's Toolbox->Drag-And-Drop).

[Wim S]

Thanks for the tip. I'll try it immediately.

[Wim S]

Hello JR,

I'm having another problem now.  I enabled drag and drop on the panel. When the panel callback is called with the EVENT_FILESDROPPED event, eventData1 should contain an array of strings of the filenames (according to the Help file). Problem is: eventData1 is an integer. How can I convert this to an array of strings. I already tried some things such as:

char

[Wim S]

(sorry, i wasn't ready yet)

char *p_filelist;

p_filelist = eventData1;

But whatever i trie i get compiler errors

[jr_2005]

Keeping things simple by assuming you are just dropping the one filename, how about:

char filename [MAX_PATH_LEN];

and then:

strcpy (filename, (char *) eventData1);

The cast should stop your compiler errors.

JR

[Wim S]

It works fine now. thanks a lot JR.