Trouble with Dragging and Dropping

[Zaphodious]

Hi all

I am trying to get drag and drop working, to eventually behave similarly to how a file explorer with a sidebar allows you to drag a file into a folder there, or to how iTunes allows you to drag songs into a playlist. I can get a rectangle dragging around the screen, but I'm having difficulty with coordinating a "drop" as touch events on other touch areas don't seem to fire until after the dragged component is entirely done firing. I also can't seem to find a way to get the component at a specific place in the window, which would at least make it possible to hack a solution out in Rust.

Having this kind of drag and drop is a critical feature for the app that I am building, that users will expect to be there.

Is there a way to achieve this functionality in Slint as it is right now, that I'm just missing? If not, would it be welcomed if I wrote out a proposal for how I envision this working as part of the Slint API?

[xjy12345654]

According to the warehouse submission, the drag and drop function is expected to be implemented and opened in slint1.13 version 😀

[Zaphodious]

Oh, fantastic! I think I can be patient for a few weeks while the feature cooks. By the by, could you direct me to where I could read the referenced warehouse submission?

[xjy12345654]

Oh, fantastic! I think I can be patient for a few weeks while the feature cooks. By the by, could you direct me to where I could read the referenced warehouse submission?
Click on the 'commits' button under the' code 'in the warehouse.

[ogoffart]

The tracking issue is #1967

Current master contains DopeArea and DragArea element, but they are gated with an experimental feature. Not sure yet if it will be stable in 1.13
#8729

[ifeanyiagwu]

How do I enable the experimental feature in rust?

[ogoffart]

You need to define SLINT_ENABLE_EXPERIMENTAL_FEATURES=1 environment variable while building the project