tkinterdnd2-universal 1.7.1

TkinterDnD2 is a python wrapper for George Petasis'' tkDnD Tk extension version 2

fork

This is fork of tkinterdnd2 which is a python wrapper for tkdnd .

major changes

⭐️Update all platform libtkdnd runtime files to the latest version, 2.9.3.

⭐️Add support for Apple Silicon macOS (arm64), Linux on ARM and Windows on ARM.

tkdnd
├── linux-arm64
│   ├── libtkdnd2.9.3.so
│   ├── pkgIndex.tcl
│   ├── tkdnd.tcl
│   ├── tkdnd_compat.tcl
│   ├── tkdnd_generic.tcl
│   ├── tkdnd_macosx.tcl
│   ├── tkdnd_unix.tcl
│   ├── tkdnd_utils.tcl
│   └── tkdnd_windows.tcl
├── linux-x64
│   ├── libtkdnd2.9.3.so
│   ├── pkgIndex.tcl
│   ├── tkdnd.tcl
│   ├── tkdnd_compat.tcl
│   ├── tkdnd_generic.tcl
│   ├── tkdnd_macosx.tcl
│   ├── tkdnd_unix.tcl
│   ├── tkdnd_utils.tcl
│   └── tkdnd_windows.tcl
├── osx-arm64
│   ├── libtkdnd2.9.3.dylib
│   ├── pkgIndex.tcl
│   ├── tkdnd.tcl
│   ├── tkdnd_compat.tcl
│   ├── tkdnd_generic.tcl
│   ├── tkdnd_macosx.tcl
│   ├── tkdnd_unix.tcl
│   ├── tkdnd_utils.tcl
│   └── tkdnd_windows.tcl
├── osx-x64
│   ├── libtkdnd2.9.3.dylib
│   ├── pkgIndex.tcl
│   ├── tkdnd.tcl
│   ├── tkdnd_compat.tcl
│   ├── tkdnd_generic.tcl
│   ├── tkdnd_macosx.tcl
│   ├── tkdnd_unix.tcl
│   ├── tkdnd_utils.tcl
│   └── tkdnd_windows.tcl
├── win-arm64
│   ├── libtkdnd2.9.3.dll
│   ├── pkgIndex.tcl
│   ├── tkdnd.tcl
│   ├── tkdnd2.9.3.lib
│   ├── tkdnd_compat.tcl
│   ├── tkdnd_generic.tcl
│   ├── tkdnd_macosx.tcl
│   ├── tkdnd_unix.tcl
│   ├── tkdnd_utils.tcl
│   └── tkdnd_windows.tcl
└── win-x64
    ├── libtkdnd2.9.3.dll
    ├── pkgIndex.tcl
    ├── tkdnd.tcl
    ├── tkdnd2.9.3.lib
    ├── tkdnd_compat.tcl
    ├── tkdnd_generic.tcl
    ├── tkdnd_macosx.tcl
    ├── tkdnd_unix.tcl
    ├── tkdnd_utils.tcl
    └── tkdnd_windows.tcl

7 directories, 56 files

this repo forked and edited to be published to pypi so one could simply install this package with pip install tkinterdnd2-universal.

install

pip install tkinterdnd2-universal

usage

import tkinter as tk

from tkinterdnd2 import DND_FILES, TkinterDnD

root = TkinterDnD.Tk()  # notice - use this instead of tk.Tk()

lb = tk.Listbox(root)
lb.insert(1, "drag files to here")

# register the listbox as a drop target
lb.drop_target_register(DND_FILES)
lb.dnd_bind('<<Drop>>', lambda e: lb.insert(tk.END, e.data))

lb.pack()
root.mainloop()

see any of the demos for usage examples.

tkinterdnd2

Tkinter native drag and drop support for windows, unix and Mac OSX(both x86_64 and arm64).

What is TkInterDnD2

TkinterDnD2 is a python wrapper for George Petasis' tkDnD Tk extension version 2.

It is a domain public project.

What is TkDnD2

tkDnD2 is a tcl/Tk extension adding native drag and drop support.

What this repository is about

It package TkinterDnD2 and tkdnd2 into a standard python module.

When the extension is imported in python its location will be automatically added to the Tk search path.

In this project we use the pre-compiled release from https://github.com/petasis/tkdnd/releases/tag/tkdnd-release-test-v2.9.2 and copy them in tkinterdnd2/tkdnd.

pyinstaller

If you want to use pyinstaller, you should use the hook-tkinterdnd2.py ( you can find this file here ) file included. Copy it in the base directory of your project, then:

pyinstaller -F -w myproject/myproject.py --additional-hooks-dir=.