Is it possible to drag and drop project items to a custom extension panel?

[Premiopolis]

Looking for a way to be able to drag a project item -- clip, sequence, etc -- from the project window to a custom extension panel.  Goal is to be able to process something -- maybe change a clip, add some metadata, move to a designated bin -- ally by drag-and-drop.  Method would have to pass some identifying info to a handler for any processing.

I was not expecting to this work at all, but actually got further than expected: I created a div with a "ondrop" event listener, dragged a source clip from the project window to it and lo and behold it triggered the listener.  Unfortunately that was the extent of it.  The JS event handler, although it fired, detected no files, no info, so the whole thing dead-ended.

Anyone have any ideas on this?

[Bruce Bullis · Accepted solution]

Any possibility of doing that?

Not today—dragging FROM panels is supported.

You'll note that drag FROM is supported via file paths; not every PPro projectItem has a file path.

[Premiopolis]

Thanks for clarifying.  The ability of dragging project items TO a panel for processing would allow some really efficient workflows.  Is that something SDK team is considering?

Dragging FROM panels -- what is it in the panel that you can drag?  Media in HTML tags e.g.  <img> <video> <audio>?

[Bruce Bullis]

Is that something SDK team is considering?

Definitely!

Dragging FROM panels -- what is it in the panel that you can drag? Media in HTML tags e.g. <img> <video> <audio>?

An array of file paths; see PProPanel's dragHandler().
Samples/ext.js at master · Adobe-CEP/Samples · GitHub

[WobbleSoftware]

Has any progress been made by the SDK team on this feature? I too would love to be able to drag and drop Sequences (and even clips) to our custom plugin panel, and have the panel export the sequence to FcpXml (which CEP already allows). This would allow for a queue system allowing video editors workflow to be greatly improved!

If this feature has not yet been implemented, can you give us an idea of how high (or low) this feature request is on the SDK team's task list?

Thank you and keep up the good work!

[Bruce Bullis]

> Has any progress been made by the SDK team on this feature?

No changes coming to drag-n-drop, in our forthcoming release.

If this feature has not yet been implemented, can you give us an idea of how high (or low) this feature request is on the SDK team's task list?

No drag-n-drop changes are planned, for this calendar year.

I too would love to be able to drag and drop Sequences (and even clips) to our custom plugin panel, and have the panel export the sequence to FcpXml (which CEP already allows).

The lack of drag-n-drop doesn't need to be a barrier. Many panels act upon the active sequence; your panel can also get the current project panel selection, so you could export selected sequences.

Distinction, which may not make a difference: CEP is the JavaScript framework that loads the panel as a web page; the real exporting work is done by PPro's ExtendScript API.

[Premiopolis]

Any update on this?  I have a client who would love to make use of it.

I dragged a sequence to an existing custom panel, saw the mouse cursor change...

...which looks promising...

but a searches on the topic for newer articles returned less-than-auspicious answers.