Drag and Drop in Tkinter?

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What is the correct/official/proper/recommended way of accomplishing drag/drop in tkinter? My documentation section 24.1.1 includes:

Tkdnd Drag-and-drop support for Tkinter. This is experimental and should become deprecated when it is replaced with the Tk DND.

but I can find no other official documentation. Does Tkinter have drag/drop support at all? Is this something version dependant? Is this something not yet included in tk(tcl) which will then filter through to tkinter?

I should stress that I am talking about drag/drop between different applications and that I am currently using python 2 (although any solution which relies on python 3 would still be of interest).

There's been some development - here's a solution: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/14267900/python-drag-and-drop-explorer-files-to-tkinter-entry-widget — nda, Jun 21 '18 at 18:39

score 7 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 22 '13 at 11:15

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Tkinter has no built-in support for dragging and dropping between applications. Tkdnd is, AFAIK, the only way to accomplish it without writing the low level code yourself.

answered Apr 22 '13 at 11:15

Bryan Oakley

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Thanks for the fast response. From the quoted documentation, may I assume that _tkdnd_ and _tk dnd_ are two separate things? – Richard Apr 22 '13 at 14:40

score 6 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 25 '13 at 15:27

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Check out this module, D&D with TK and Python 3.

answered Jul 25 '13 at 15:27

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I know links aren't especially popular on SO, but this write-up was of great value figuring out how dnd works [Tkdnd](http://www.bitflipper.ca/Documentation/Tkdnd.html) – Robert Lugg Sep 19 '14 at 09:03

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