Drag and Drop Files

thew00tman · April 6th, 2007, 02:03 AM

I have an application that i want to be able to drag a file from explorer, and drop it into a box on my form.

I set the box's OLEDropMode to 1 - Manual, so it allows things to be dropped.

I just need to know how to retrieve the filename that is being dropped.

I am pretty new to VB, so please tell me if I am just crazy :P

You don't know.

woodyz · April 16th, 2007, 09:37 AM

Conceptually, this is a simple thing.

The file names are contained in the Files collection of the DataObject paramter that is the first parameter of the OLEDragDrop event handler for the control you want to drop on.

For example, if you have a text control named TextControl1 on your form, you would use this code to see this working:

Code:

Private Sub Text1_OLEDragDrop(Data As DataObject, Effect As Long, Button As Integer, Shift As Integer, X As Single, Y As Single)
    Text1.Text = Data.Files(1)
End Sub

Of course, you will want to add error handling, as well as to actually code the behaviors you want.

Woody Z
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