TADVStringgrid - Drag Drop Outlook attachment

VCL TMS VCL UI Pack
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Hi all,


Is it possible to drag and drop an attachment (for example a PDF File) of an outlook email directly to a TADVStringgrid. The attachment should be copied to a folder and only a link of the copied file should be written in a cell of the grid.

Greetings from Germany
Detlef
2

That should be possible.
Set grid.DragDropSettings.OleDropTarget = true,  grid.DragDropSettings.OleAcceptFiles = true and when you drop a file on the grid the grid.OnOleDropFile should be triggered.

3

I had already done this to drag drop a file from Windows Explorer and this works great. But when I try this from my Outlook (365) the grid will not accept the file attached to an Email and the event is not triggered.

4

We investigated this and it appears that files dragged out of Outlook are handled with a special drag & drop format, different from file dragging from Windows Explorer for example.
We'll need to investigate this specific format and see if it will be feasible to support it in TAdvStringGrid.