Possibility to drag files into macOS app

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Leon Hoppe

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Sep 26, 2019, 10:13:45 AM9/26/19

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Hey,

as I found out, its currently not possible to drag and drop files in a macOS app written in flutter?

Or is there a way to realize that with a plugin?

Greetings

Leon Hoppe

Stuart Morgan

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Sep 26, 2019, 1:01:42 PM9/26/19

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On Thu, Sep 26, 2019 at 7:13 AM Leon Hoppe <leonh...@gmail.com> wrote:

as I found out, its currently not possible to drag and drop files in a macOS app written in flutter?

That's correct. https://github.com/flutter/flutter/issues/30719 would be the issue to watch for supporting that.

Or is there a way to realize that with a plugin?

It might be possible to hack together support with a plugin. You'd probably need to experiment with having a transparent view layered over the Flutter view that registered as a drop target, and getting things configured such that it doesn't affect normal event handling but does intercept drops may be tricky (or potentially not even possible; that would be a very unusual view configuration, so the OS may or may not support it).