# FR: DragAndDropContainer allow dragging components onto Desktop

**URL:** <https://forum.juce.com/t/fr-draganddropcontainer-allow-dragging-components-onto-desktop/55572>\
**Category:** Feature Requests\
**Created:** [March 29, 2023, 12:06pm UTC](https://forum.juce.com/t/fr-draganddropcontainer-allow-dragging-components-onto-desktop/55572 "2023-03-29T12:06:16Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![Elanda](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/forum.juce.com/elanda/32/7752_2.png) [@Elanda](https://forum.juce.com/u/Elanda)\
**Post date:** [March 29, 2023, 12:06pm UTC](https://forum.juce.com/t/fr-draganddropcontainer-allow-dragging-components-onto-desktop/55572/1 "2023-03-29T12:06:16Z")

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Hello dear JUCE Team, hello dear JUCE community!

It was a sunny day and I was developing as you would usually do on such a day.  
All nice and cozy, I even had a cup of freshly brewed tea next to me, just for the drip you know. 🌞

But suddenly - out of nowhere, it struck me… struck me like your typical mountain goat while sitting on a park bench enjoying granny’s roastbeef steak from the day before, this ramming sensation on your buttocks because this goat would like to have a word with you. (or probably a bite off of granny’s roast beef steak)  
But then you realise… “Oh no juce::DragAndDropContainer does not allow you to drag components out of the JUCE window as a target”, and you are telling yourself: “Let’s make a feature request!”. 👍

Yes and that’s why I am here, I would like to make a proposal to allow juce components to be dragged out on the desktop. 🙂

But wait, why would you want that Elanda?  
A good question!  
The thing is, I would love to have a way to drag components out and when dropped, they create their own windows.  
Similar to what many applications already allow you to do, when you, for example, drag a tab out of the window and then they remain floating in their own windows on the Desktop. 😃

They way I did it until this request was to implement my own DragAndDropContainer based on JUCE’s, however, with all the updates and stuff, it’s a bit annoying trying to keep this up in future, so a framework supported feature would be nice. 😅

**TL;DR**  
Allow juce::DragAndDropContainer to drop components outside the window as its own target and let the user do whatever they want in that case.  
Preferably, let them override a function like “droppedOnDesktop” or something like that, but maybe there are better ways.

Anyway, I thank the team and the community for their efforts,  
I wish all of you a nice and happy day 🙂

Elanda

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**Author:** ![dave96](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/forum.juce.com/dave96/32/8487_2.png) [@dave96](https://forum.juce.com/u/dave96)\
**Post date:** [March 29, 2023, 1:05pm UTC](https://forum.juce.com/t/fr-draganddropcontainer-allow-dragging-components-onto-desktop/55572/2 "2023-03-29T13:05:33Z")

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You can already do this. There’s an example in the JUCE demo (widgets demo?) IIRC.