Drag and drop image into 2d Picture

Hi All,
I'm trying to implement a bit of "MS paint" magic for a customer's dialog. I want to be able to drag and drop into a 2d picture control. Ideally, I'd like to be able to move this around and resize it once it's there, but let's start with the first part - how to drag and drop from e.g. the desktop onto the 2d picture control. The rest is nice-to-have but unnecessary.
I've seen a clever example on here using a transparent path control, but that's not going to cut it here (I have other events linked with that picture box, e.g. right now I have a double-click event adding text to the image).
Thanks for any ideas... I've looked briefly into using the windows API (i.e. constructor nodes) but, there be dragons.
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Hi All,
I'm trying to implement a bit of "MS paint" magic for a customer's dialog. I want to be able to drag and drop into a 2d picture control. Ideally, I'd like to be able to move this around and resize it once it's there, but let's start with the first part - how to drag and drop from e.g. the desktop onto the 2d picture control. The rest is nice-to-have but unnecessary.
I've seen a clever example on here using a transparent path control, but that's not going to cut it here (I have other events linked with that picture box, e.g. right now I have a double-click event adding text to the image).
Thanks for any ideas... I've looked briefly into using the windows API (i.e. constructor nodes) but, there be dragons.
Well, it is possible and I got it working . Let me clean it up, close my references, etc and I will post it. You will have to use the .net control though so hopefully that is ok. You could manage it for the labVIEW picture control with a mix of .net or winAPI to handle the drag and drop and see if it's over your picture control and then somehow get the path of the drag and load the path into the LabVIEW picture control. But, you may just want to stick with it all using the .net control
CLA, LabVIEW Versions 2010-2013

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