Has any consideration been made to harmonising the clipboard and externalDrag APIs? Is there any ong...

# compose-desktop

[rob42]

Has any consideration been made to harmonising the clipboard and externalDrag APIs? Is there any ongoing discussion about evolution of these APIs?

There is a lot of precedent for combining: both clipboard and drag are built on the same abstraction (java.awt.datatransfer.Transferable), and handling both clipboard+drag the same is how most OS APIs work too.

Currently, the handy DragData wrapper is only exposed when content is dragged, and Transferable.dragData(): DragData is internal. I copied ExternalDragAwtExtensions.kt verbatim into my project in order to convert pasted data into DragData, and it works great.

[rob42]

i.e.:

val transferable: Transferable? = Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().systemClipboard.getContents(null)
val dragData = transferable?.dragData()

[Ivan Matkov]

Should fit Modifier.receiveContent (not supported on CMP yet)
cc @Alexander Maryanovsky

[Alexander Maryanovsky]

Yes, that API is being worked on.