Drag and drop files/pictures onto a love2d window?

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xThomas
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Drag and drop files/pictures onto a love2d window?

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lets say for the sake of argument, the user would drag and drop a picture, or video, or text file onto a love2d window. like how in imgur or many other programs you can drag and drop files/pictures. same thing here

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Re: Drag and drop files/pictures onto a love2d window?

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I've not used it personally (I'm using an older version), but since Love 0.10.0 there are 2 new callback functions for this functionality:

https://www.love2d.org/wiki/love.filedropped
https://www.love2d.org/wiki/love.directorydropped
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Re: Drag and drop files/pictures onto a love2d window?

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I can attest to it, those two functions do indeed work. Tested on Windows, at least.
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Re: Drag and drop files/pictures onto a love2d window?

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Works on Linux as well. Here's a project that relies on drag-and-drop of a video: viewtopic.php?t=82429

It happens to work unmodified in 11.1.
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