Drag&Drop: how to know coordenates of drop position?

[abeplaga]

Hello everybody. I have a question, I do not know if it is a silly doubt but I would like to solve it because I wanna sleep tonight :p

Ok, so... Here I go: is it possible to get the X and Y values of the position where a drag object has been drop? I want to save that information in a few variables but I can't find a way to do it.

On the other hand, is it possible to save in a variable the value of the width of the drag object?

Thank you all!

[philat]

Except for d, all of the parameters are available as fields (with the same name) on the Drag object. In addition, after the drag has been rendered, the following fields become available:

x, y
The position of the Drag relative to its parent, in pixels.
w, h
The width and height of the Drag's child, in pixels.

https://www.renpy.org/doc/html/drag_drop.html

[abeplaga]

Except for d, all of the parameters are available as fields (with the same name) on the Drag object. In addition, after the drag has been rendered, the following fields become available:

x, y
The position of the Drag relative to its parent, in pixels.
w, h
The width and height of the Drag's child, in pixels.

https://www.renpy.org/doc/html/drag_drop.html

Yes, I've read the documentation but I don't know how to do it. I'm a student and not a programmer, I don't have much idea and that's why I ask, to learn.

[philat]

Yeah, I'm not a programmer either. You asked two questions. Can you access a Drag's x/y/width? If so, how do you store it in a variable? The documentation answers both. 1. Yes, a Drag's x/y/width are available properties. 2. There is literally an example of a Drag's properties being stored in a variable in the documentation.

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init python:

    def detective_dragged(drags, drop):

        if not drop:
            return

        store.detective = drags[0].drag_name
        store.city = drop.drag_name

        return True

After dragging, if a drop occurred, the variable detective now stores the drag's drag_name and the variable city now stores the drop's drag_name. drags[0].x would be the drag's x position.

If you have a question beyond what is in the documentation, you need to be more specific.

[Alex]

...is it possible to get the X and Y values of the position where a drag object has been drop? ...

Extending philat's answer, if you dragged and dropped the object somewhere onscreen (and not over droppable object), then you can store its coordinates like

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init python:

    def detective_dragged(drags, drop):

        if not drop:
            store.my_x = drags[0].x
            store.my_y = drags[0].y

(you might need to set the default values for my_x and my_y (as usually) to not get error)

[abeplaga]

...is it possible to get the X and Y values of the position where a drag object has been drop? ...

Extending philat's answer, if you dragged and dropped the object somewhere onscreen (and not over droppable object), then you can store its coordinates like

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init python:

    def detective_dragged(drags, drop):

        if not drop:
            store.my_x = drags[0].x
            store.my_y = drags[0].y

(you might need to set the default values for my_x and my_y (as usually) to not get error)

Thank you, it works fine! My mistake was that I wrote "drop" instead of "drags[0]" >.<

Another question regarding drag and drop: is it possible to limit the drag area? In other words... that the object can only be moved only on a area of the screen with drag limits.

[Alex]

...is it possible to limit the drag area? In other words... that the object can only be moved only on a area of the screen with drag limits.

Well, you need to place your draggroup inside a kind of container then, so it would be limited inside it and not inside the whole screen, like

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image red:
    Solid("#c00")
    size(200, 200)
    
image blue:
    Solid("#00c")
    size(200, 200)

screen test_drag_drop_area_scr():
    
    frame:
        pos (100, 100)
        side "c b r":
            area (0, 0, 600, 400)
            

            viewport id "vp":
                child_size (1200, 800)
                draggable True

                draggroup:

                    drag:
                        drag_name "red"
                        child "red"
                        droppable False
                        #dragged detective_dragged
                        xpos 100 ypos 100
                    drag:
                        drag_name "blue"
                        child "blue"
                        droppable False
                        #dragged detective_dragged
                        xpos 300 ypos 300

            bar value XScrollValue("vp")
            vbar value YScrollValue("vp")
        
# The game starts here.

label start:
    "..."
    show screen test_drag_drop_area_scr
    "... ..."
    "?!"