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I want to request an enhancement to detect location where we drop a file from application to local file system. Thanks,
This feature would solve quite some problems I currently have with drag-and-drop. With some guidance, I would be willing to make the needed effort to contribute this enhancement to SWT. Taking a deep look at the source, its difficult for me to so see where to find the drop-location. Has anybody some hint for that? How about having the drop-location available in the event-object passed to dragFinished() ? There it would be possible to work with the information further on.
I'm not sure I undertood the problem. From the DragSource side you want to know who the DropTarget is ? What would that API look like ?
The information that is not accessible to me is the path (for a FileTransfer) to which a file was dragged to (path in the operating-system, outside of my Eclipse RCP). The actual problem is: I have a table that shows a list of (virtual) files, these files are stored on a server. It is possible to drag these files from the table to the local filesystem to copy them to that location. This works partly. When the drag starts, I can download the dragged file to a local tmp-folder and set the path to the local file in the dragSetData(..)-method. So far, everything is fine for small files, that are completely downloaded when the user drops the file. Here is a scheme of the dragSetData: public void dragSetData(DragSourceEvent event) { event.data = downloadFile(currently_selected_file); } Now, for some larger files, this does not work, because the files are already copied from the tmp-location to the drop-target when the user releases the mouse-button (for larger files that is then before they are completely downloaded). My solution for that: if I knew the path where the user has dropped the file to (for example the desktop), I can initiate the copy of the file myself to that destination after the download is complete. But, I am currently not able to get this information (the drop-target-path for the FileTransfer). It would be great if this information is available e.g. in the event-object at the dragFinished-method: public void dragFinished(DragSourceEvent event) { drop_target_path = event.data; copy_currently_selected_file_after_download(drop_target_path); } Any help there is greatly appreciated.
Juergen Baier, see Bug 196176. Is that what you need ?
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