FileBrowserComponent Drag and Drop request/idea

General JUCE discussion
1

hello :slight_smile:
just spend quite a while figuring out how to make a file browser drag and drop capable.
a forum search just brought up the idea of using my own TreeViewItemComponent, which doesn’t work without much coding work :wink:

in the end i figured out you just have to add one line in the FileBrowserComponent constructor.

...
FileTreeComponent* const tree = new FileTreeComponent (*fileList);
        tree->setDragAndDropDescription(T("MyName")); //<------ enables drag and drop
...

would be great to have access to this either through a constructor parameter or a function call, so i would’nt have to use my own component just for this one line.

cheers,
comboy

2

this unfortunately works only when you’re using the tree view. Do you have any tricks like this when using the list view? I haven’t been able to figure this one out without much coding work.

3

 

Yes it's true, the fileTreeComponent pointer should be accessible from the FileBrowserComponent class to allow drag and drop.

 

I found a solution to do that without overriding the class.

I simply took the DirectoryContentsDisplayComponent pointer and casted it as a FileTreeComponent to call setDragAndDropDescription. 

Make sure you pass the 'useTreeView' flag in the FileBrowserComponent constructor.

 

    FileTreeComponent* pTreeComponent = static_cast<FileTreeComponent*> (mFileBrowserComp->getDisplayComponent());

    if(pTreeComponent)
    {
        pTreeComponent->setDragAndDropDescription("DragAndDrop");
    }