Drag & Drop Functionality?

[lucenta]

Is there anyway to add drag & drop functionality from the web GUI to native OS?

I'm using CHOC as the UI for a JUCE application & unfortunately it seems that using a webview overrides any ability to listen to mouse events on the JUCE side, thus negating the ability to handle any drag and drop from JUCE itself.

I'm attempting to drag files (stored locally) from the web view UI to the native OS (i.e folder, DAW, etc.).

Countless forums online left me at a dead end to implementing this on the javascript side. I see electron has this functionality https://www.electronjs.org/docs/latest/tutorial/native-file-drag-drop

Is it possible to implement something similar here?

thanks!

[julianstorer]

Yes, I'm aware of this, and I also need some drag and drop in my own apps, so will have to take a look at this. Not sure how soon I'll get around to it though.
I think attempting to do it on the webview side is a dead end because of security policies, so it'll have to be a messy native hack in the webview code, unfortunately, and could involve quite a lot of work

[lucenta]

Yeah, I ran into a bunch of security policies too unfortunately.

If i was familiar I would try to implement it myself!

Thank you for the reply

[lucenta]

Hey Julian! I'm wondering if you have any update here?

[julianstorer]

Sorry! Still on my roadmap, but haven't had chance to look into it yet

[lucenta]

Hello there, sorry to bother again but wondering if you have a timeline for a fix here. ty :)

[lucenta]

Hey Julian! Sorry to bother again but just wondering if you've given this a chance, thanks

[julianstorer]

Sorry, I've not had an urgent need to tackle this one yet!

[meteaurestudios]

@lucenta I had a similar issue dragging and dropping files out of a webview on a JUCE based plugin. I'm using the webview embedded in JUCE 8, but someone using choc has taken part of the discussion, so I guess the fix would be the same here. Check out this topic.

[julianstorer]

FYI I did start some drag-and-drop work on a branch called test-dnd, and did it for DesktopWindow. Then realised that if there's a webview in the window, it doesn't work, and will require a lot of platform-specific hackery to get it working on all the webviews, which I didn't have time to do. If anyone fancies carrying on with that branch (or just throw it at Claude Code and see how it does!) then that'd get things moving!