[RESOLVED] Drag and Drop from Explorer to VB App

[swambast]

Man, I'm a little rusty here guys on the OLE stuff, can someone please give me some help.

Simply want to drag and drop an external Explorer file, such as a text file, onto my App's command button (ideally). The file dropped from Explorer I just need to capture it's full path into a string variable (strSource) and I can take it from there. Any help and refreshers would be greatly appreciated...

[Nightwalker83]

I have requested the thread moved out for the code bank.

[seenu_1st]

try something like this

Private Sub Command1_OLEDragDrop(Data As DataObject, Effect As Long, Button As Integer, Shift As Integer, X As Single, Y As Single)
MsgBox Data.Files(1)
End Sub

Private Sub Form_Load()
Command1.OLEDropMode = 1 'manual
End Sub

[swambast]

Seenu, thanks for your reply. However, during the interim I had noticed I did not set the OLEDropMode during design time, it was incorrectly set at "None" so when set to manual all is well. Thanks very much!