PasteDragDrop firing on DragEnter?

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Posted 19 years ago by Jason Whitted - Owner, Etalisoft, LLC
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I'm trying to load a file when it is dropped onto the editor; however, I'm running into a problem where the PasteDragDrop event is firing on DragEnter instead of DragDrop.

Below is a small application which illistrates the problem.
using System;
using System.Windows.Forms;
using ActiproSoftware.SyntaxEditor;
using System.Diagnostics;

public partial class Form1 : Form
{
    private SyntaxEditor editor;

    public Form1()
    {
        editor = new SyntaxEditor();
        editor.Dock = DockStyle.Fill;
        this.Controls.Add(editor);

        editor.AllowDrop = true;
        editor.PasteDragDrop += new PasteDragDropEventHandler(editor_PasteDragDrop);
    }

    private void editor_PasteDragDrop(object sender, PasteDragDropEventArgs e)
    {
        if (e.DataObject.GetDataPresent(DataFormats.FileDrop))
        {
            string[] files = e.DataObject.GetData(DataFormats.FileDrop) as string[];
            if (files == null || files.Length == 0) return;
            Debug.WriteLine(String.Format("{0:hh:mm:ss.fff} editor_PasteDragDrop --> LoadFile", DateTime.Now));
            editor.Document.LoadFile(files[0]);
        }
    }
}

Comments (5)

Posted 19 years ago by Actipro Software Support - Cleveland, OH, USA
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Actually that's by design. The reason is so that we know whether to display a drop-allowed cursor or not. Essentially you can set e.Text to any non-null value to allow the drop, or a null value to show a cursor that indicates it can't be dropped.


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Posted 19 years ago by Jason Whitted - Owner, Etalisoft, LLC
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OK? So how can I determine when the file is actually dropped so I can load the file instead of it loading the file on DragEnter?
Posted 19 years ago by Actipro Software Support - Cleveland, OH, USA
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There is an event args parameter that indicates what is calling the event (DragEnter, DragDrop, etc.). Do it only in DragDrop.


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Posted 19 years ago by Jason Whitted - Owner, Etalisoft, LLC
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Aha! PasteDragDropEventArgs.Source was there all along. Thanks a lot for the help.
Posted 19 years ago by Actipro Software Support - Cleveland, OH, USA
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No problem!


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The latest build of this product (v24.1.1) was released 3 months ago, which was after the last post in this thread.

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