File Drag and Drop?

[JRL]

Anyone found a way to capture file names dropped on a Macro Scheduler dialog?

[Meryl]

Anyone know the answer? I'd love to know.

[Marcus Tettmar]

As far as I know the only way an app can do that is by first calling DragAcceptFiles and then hooking the WM_DROPFILES message and responding to it. While you can do the first using LibFunc there's no way in Macro Scheduler to do the latter. Sorry.

[JRL]

This is the best I've come up with. The idea actually came to me in a dream last night.... I know, how sad... Typed it up today and found that there is an issue with Win7 not killing the explorer.exe window when the script ends so I added a killprocess at the end.

What this does is create a directory under the temp folder called "DragAndDropSite". It then opens Windows Explorer at the DragAndDropSite folder. Finally we have our Macro Scheduler dialog SetParent on the Explorer window so the Explorer window is actually in the dialog. Any files dragged and dropped on the dialog are actually dropped on the Explorer window. That's all the sample does but from there the dropped files are isolated to a specific folder and can be manipulated to suit.

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Dialog>Dialog1
object Dialog1: TForm
  BorderIcons = [biSystemMenu]
  Caption = 'Drop Files Here'
  ClientHeight = 200
  ClientWidth = 200
  Color = 255
end
EndDialog>Dialog1

CreateDir>%temp_Dir%DragAndDropSite
Let>RP_WindowMode=0
Run>explorer %temp_Dir%DragAndDropSite
WaitWindowOpen>DragAndDropSite*
Wait>0.5
GetWindowHandle>DragAndDropSite*,DaDhndl

LibFunc>user32,SetParent,SPres,DaDhndl,Dialog1.Handle

Let>Win_UseHandle=1
  ResizeWindow>DaDhndl,1000,1000
  MoveWindow>DaDhndl,-300,-300
  GetWindowProcess>DaDhndl,Explorer_ID,Explorer_Name
  SetFocus>DaDhndl
Let>Win_UseHandle=0

Show>Dialog1,res1
StringReplace>OS_VER,NT.,,OS_VER
If>OS_VER>5.5
  KillProcess>Explorer_ID
EndIf

[Marcus Tettmar]

Cunning

[Grovkillen]

Any new takes on this? I'm thinking that perhaps we could be allowed to have the dialog registered as a dragdrop target in order to have the file info passed to the drop event?

[Dorian (MJT support)]

Not that I am aware of, but I will ask Marcus.

[Dorian (MJT support)]

Marcus confirmed. This is not something we are currently planning to add.

[Grovkillen]

Ok, thanks for the feedback. I will have to go the explorer.exe route with having the user drop their file onto the EXE icon in the Explorer. It'll do for now.

[Franklin]

Another possible take on this is to use Selenium WebDriver

Destination can be a local source

References for code found Here:
https://www.guru99.com/drag-drop-selenium.html
https://www.browserstack.com/guide/drag ... -selenium