FileTreeComponent drag'n'drop

General JUCE discussion
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Since the FileTreeComponent is meant for showing & using files, would it not perhaps be better to implement drag’n’drop into it, something like adding this to line 96 of the juce_FileTreeComponent.cpp file :

virtual const String getDragSourceDescription() {return getUniqueName();}

This function could perhaps check a boolean flag in the FileTreeComponent if it should allow drag’n’drop and if not, return an empty String as usual.

Perhaps is there any reason for not doing this?

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I don’t think that’s quite what you’d want it to send, as the name is supposed to be used to recognise the purpose of the object that’s doing the dragging rather than a description of the item itself. What I’ve done now is to add a setDragAndDropDescription() method to the tree so you can set a description for the whole tree.

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That’s just perfect. Thanks.