Kivy: drag n drop, get file path

Question

In Kivy, I am trying to build an interface where the user can drag and drop a file into a widget (text input) and then my code would retrieve the file system path of that file (/path/to/users.file). That seems like a simpler approach than using the FileChooser widget, but how would I do it?

Thanks!

Answer 1

Use on_dropfile event handler. Here is an working example:

from kivy.app import App
from kivy.core.window import Window


class WindowFileDropExampleApp(App):
    def build(self):
        Window.bind(on_dropfile=self._on_file_drop)
        return

    def _on_file_drop(self, window, file_path):
        print(file_path)
        return

if __name__ == '__main__':
    WindowFileDropExampleApp().run()