C# - App - How to Drag and Drop from the desktop to a Panel in a Form?

question by Alfonso2968 | Hard

Hello,

I am New here and fairly new to programming.

I have searched everything and all I can find is how to drag and drop within a form from panel to panel.

What I need to do is Drag an image from the desktop or from an open folder to a panel on my form.

This will be done for a few images and then on Buttonclik I need to save each image in its own folder.

Any help is much appreciated.

Here is what I have on the events - for d&d

This allows me to drag and drop within the form but trying to drag from desktop to panel1 doesn't work.
Code: ( text )

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private void panel_DragDrop(object sender, DragEventArgs e)
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{
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//target control will accept data here
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Panel destination = (Panel)sender;
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destination.BackgroundImage = (Bitmap)e.Data.GetData(typeof(Bitmap));
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}
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private void panel_DragEnter(object sender, DragEventArgs e)
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{
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//As we are interested in Image data only we will check this as follows
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if (e.Data.GetDataPresent(typeof(Bitmap)))
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{
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e.Effect = DragDropEffects.Copy;
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}
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else
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{
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e.Effect = DragDropEffects.None;
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}
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}
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private void panel_MouseDown(object sender, MouseEventArgs e)
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{
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//we will pass the data that user wants to drag DoDragDrop method is used for holding data
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//DoDragDrop accepts two paramete first paramter is data(image,file,text etc) and second paramter
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//specify either user wants to copy the data or move data
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Panel source = (Panel)sender;
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DoDragDrop(source.BackgroundImage, DragDropEffects.Copy);
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}