Is there a way to access the awt component of any ...

# compose-desktop

[Hamba]

Is there a way to access the awt component of any composable (im not sure if this question even makes sense tbh)? im implementing drag and dropping files onto my app, and right now im setting window.dropTarget, which triggers an even when dragging things onto anywhere in the window, but i only want to it work when dragging onto a specific panel. is it possible to get the specific component and set its droptarget?

[Alexander Maryanovsky]

The entire compose app is drawn on the window itself.

[Alexander Maryanovsky]

There’s not an awt component underlying every compose element.

[Hamba]

right, then is there a way to achieve what i want?

[Alexander Maryanovsky]

Have you seen Modifier.onExternalDrag?

[Hamba]

i couldve sworn i tried that and it wasnt being recognised as a valid method of modifier but thats definitely the way to go, thanks

[Zoff]

hava a look here:

https://github.com/Zoxcore/trifa_material/commit/98264d79364f45b3f10ff5f43f1a1159475181e3

https://github.com/Zoxcore/trifa_material/commit/7303d18415f89cd0dcc26d8d888178025de23f30

[Zoff]

i had the same issue to solve. sadly no really out of the box solutions available

[Hamba]

no the modifier.onExternalDrag works

[Hamba]

@Zoff

[Hamba]

image.png,image.png

[Hamba]

you only get the file paths but with that you can do whatever you want