Drag n' drop in Playlist Editor

[Joonas]

Hello,

I played around this morning and came up with this little plugin which allows you to drag n' drop items from the Playlist Editor and drag them to for example DL or ML or any other program. Dragging into Explorer should copy the file there...

Still, this was just a little experiment for me. It seems to work fairly well in my tests, but as we all know, plugins doesn't work the same on all computers...

If anyone would like to try it out though that would be nice post comments in this thread afterwards...

To use it, just download this file and put it in your Plugins folder. To drag 'n drop hold down Ctrl and Alt (it was a pain to find a combination that worked; Shift selects, Ctrl selects and DrO stole Alt for JTFE! ) and just drag...hope it works!

Joonas

[Dick65]

Sorry, but here CTRL+ALT behaves just as CTRL (selecting, moving when dragging). No dragging outside the PE.
I have XP SP2 running with WA 5.093 with various plugins.

//Edit: Same with WA 2.91//

This will be very nice once it works.

[Kebabrov]

i have the same problem. maybe use a right click instead?

[Joonas]

Ehm...sorry. It is of course Ctrl+Shift that activates it all...Please try again with this if it's not too much of a hassle.

right-click would be a mess...popup-menus everywhere

[AsHopeDies]

Ctrl+alt just enqueues files I select, it dose not drag 'n drop The idea is geat, but the plugin simply dose not work for me

[Joonas]

Originally posted by AsHopeDies
Ctrl+alt just enqueues files I select, it dose not drag 'n drop The idea is geat, but the plugin simply dose not work for me

Ctrl+Alt was my mistake...it just means that JTFE will treat it as a Alt+Click and enqueue it...

Try Ctrl+Shift and drag n' drop should work fine.

[Dick65]

Joonas
Try Ctrl+Shift and drag n' drop should work fine.

Sorry, CTRL+SHIFT doesn't do it, either. It still reacts as it would with just CTRL pressed.

[AsHopeDies]

Originally posted by Dick65
Sorry, CTRL+SHIFT doesn't do it, either. It still reacts as it would with just CTRL pressed.

I got the same problem...

[Joonas]

Originally posted by Dick65
Sorry, CTRL+SHIFT doesn't do it, either. It still reacts as it would with just CTRL pressed.

Hmm, and you have the file selected before you try this?

Select a file, press and hold Ctrl and Shift down and then click and hold the mouse button down while moving the mouse...

It works so good here

[Joonas]

Ah finally...I think I've found the cause why it only works for me. Screen vs client coordinates...I have my playlist editor at the top of the screen so it worked for me even though I passed it the wrong coordinates.

Try download the file again.

And remember, it's Ctrl+Shift and nothing else :P

[AsHopeDies]

Originally posted by Joonas
Ah finally...I think I've found the cause why it only works for me. Screen vs client coordinates...I have my playlist editor at the top of the screen so it worked for me even though I passed it the wrong coordinates.

Try download the file again.

And remember, it's Ctrl+Shift and nothing else :P

It works! Damn this plugin is sweet

[Joonas]

Okay...I've cleaned up the code and made it so you can Ctrl+Shift to add files to the selection now...just like Ctrl+Click...

v0.4 is up on site.

[AsHopeDies]

Originally posted by Joonas
Okay...I've cleaned up the code and made it so you can Ctrl+Shift to add files to the selection now...just like Ctrl+Click...

v0.4 is up on site.

How about this:clicking the selection again would de-select(just like ctrl+click)?

[Joonas]

Originally posted by AsHopeDies
How about this:clicking the selection again would de-select(just like ctrl+click)?

Yes that would've been good but it is hard to distinguish between a click and a mousedown + mousemove...

[edit]
Though you can just let go of the shift button, unselect those you want to unselect and then hold down Shift again for drag n' drop...
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[edit2]
To clarify...if you click and hold the item shouldn't be un-selected...cause then it won't be included when you d&d...if you just click though it should be...and that's hard to distinguish between...
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[Dick65]

Very nice

But for me it does not work for multiple files. Only the file klicked when starting the d/d is being moved.