Drag and Drop in Ignition

[paul-griffith]

Drag and drop from tag browse tree to power table

Here’s a sample window I came up with a while back. Note that is pretty low-level Java Swing stuff - so you’re on your own merits to figure out how it all works. Also, don’t even try and call into support about this. [image] Power Table Tags Dropped.proj (19.9 KB) For a brief explanation: The initialize() function of the power table fires the addListener() custom method, which creates an instance of a custom DropTargetListener. That custom DropTargetListener has an overridden drop() function…

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Drag and drop in Java Swing is non-trivial if you have direct access to the source code. Doing it from the Jython environment in Ignition is another layer of complexity.