Welcome folks today in this blog post we will be doing drag and drop files and printing full path in gui desktop app in python. All the full source code of the application is given below.

Get Started

In order to get started you need to install the below library using the pip command as shown below

pip install wxpython

After installing this library you need to make an app.py file and copy paste the following code

app.py

import wx

class MyFileDropTarget(wx.FileDropTarget):
    def __init__(self, window):
        wx.FileDropTarget.__init__(self)
        self.window = window

    def OnDropFiles(self, x, y, filenames):
        self.window.AppendText("\n%d file(s) dropped at (%d,%d):\n" %
                               (len(filenames), x, y))
        for file in filenames:
            self.window.AppendText("\t%s\n" % file)
            

class MyFrame(wx.Frame):
    def __init__(self):
        wx.Frame.__init__(self, None, title="Drop Target",
                          size=(500,300))
        p = wx.Panel(self)

        # create the controls
        label = wx.StaticText(p, -1, "Drop some files here:")
        text = wx.TextCtrl(p, -1, "",
                           style=wx.TE_MULTILINE|wx.HSCROLL)

        # setup the layout with sizers
        sizer = wx.BoxSizer(wx.VERTICAL)
        sizer.Add(label, 0, wx.ALL, 5)
        sizer.Add(text, 1, wx.EXPAND|wx.ALL, 5)
        p.SetSizer(sizer)

        # make the text control be a drop target
        dt = MyFileDropTarget(text)
        text.SetDropTarget(dt)
        

app = wx.PySimpleApp()
frm = MyFrame()
frm.Show()
app.MainLoop()

If you execute the above python script by typing the below command

python app.py