How to know what kind of drag mode is being used

[PT Exorcist]

how do i know if the info being dragged is a picture or text...the place from where the picture is being dragged is a web browser controll...i am using .NET too

[JordanChris]

I don't know about .NET, but this info was useful to me in VB 6.


The data that has been packaged by the dragged from application, is available to the dropped on application, although it must be decoded first. For example, to identify a list of files from Windows Explorer use the following:

If Data.GetFormat(15) Then
'Format 15 is an array of names from WinExplorer
        MsgBox Data.Files(1) 
        For i = 2 To Data.Files.Count
          MsgBox Data.Files(i)
        Next i
        Data.Files.Clear
    End If

The Format numbers used in the OLE DragDrop data structure, are:
Text = 1 (vbCFText)
Bitmap = 2 (vbCFBitmap)
Metafile = 3
Emetafile = 14
DIB = 8
Palette = 9
Files = 15 (vbCFFiles)
RTF = -16639

If you want to drop files from your application back to Windows Explorer, the following will load the correct data structure with the file names (full names plus path are needed). Remember: Dropping these filenames onto Windows Explorer will initiate a copy operation.

Data.Files.Add "C:\Temp\Myfile1.TXT", 1
Data.Files.Add "C:\Temp\Yourfile2.TXT", 2
Data.SetData , 15