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For now, one of the major changes affecting this particular scenario is the fact that flash.Desktop.DragManager has now been renamed as flash.desktop.NativeDragManager. Here is how you can achieve the drag & drop of file(s) from desktop. The app actually accepts an image file on drag & drop from desktop and displays it in an Image control.
import NativeDragManager & NativeDragEvent
add event listeners for NativeDragEvent.NATIVE_DRAG_ENTER and NativeDragEvent.NATIVE_DRAG_DROP
In the DRAG_ENTER handler, you call NativeDragManager.acceptDragDrop(this);
In the DRAG_DROP handler, you can get to the file(s) dropped using the following code…
public function onDrop(event:NativeDragEvent):void{var dropfiles:Array = event.clipboard.getData( ClipboardFormats.FILE_LIST_FORMAT) as Array;
Now you can loop through the files using a for… each loop as below
for each (var file:File in dropfiles){
Use the file as required in your app. Here I extract the extension of the file, check if it is an image and then load it in an Image control.
You can find the code of the application here…
