How To Drag And Drop In Godot - Basic Level Explanation 

Update for this tutorial- the functions require underscore now in front of them to work (godot 4 change). _get_drag_data _can_drop_data _drop_data And instance() is now: instantiate()

Hopefully this non-specific explanation will be helpful to a few people. Not sure, but if so I'll try to keep my future Godot videos in this sort of format. :)

This is perfect. Exactly what I was looking for. I agree that we need more non-specific examples demonstrating how to approach solving problems in general terms

Thanks so much for this. I was lucky that I found this explanation first. The generic approach helped me implement it in my game quickly. In my game, I had to split the code a bit or put the first function in the drag objects and the other two in the drop objects but your explanation mad it easy to determine how to expand to that. Bravo!!!

This vid helped me a ton in GD3. Found out from switching to GD4 the functions are nearly identical, just add a underscore in front of the func name and the 'position' argument is now 'at_position'. Ex. func _get_drag_data(at_position): You'll also see a signal icon pop up for the func if you did it right.

Love the little tilt animation and translucency, nice touches.

Holy shit ma dude, you actually just provided me the explanation I needed, what a legend

Thanks just wat i needed

Awesome, i loved it.

Thank you for making this simple. This was what I was looking for. I can already imagine the many different ways I can sue this.

If you do a search for "Godot drag and drop inventory" there's a bunch of tutorials that cover these functions. Just in case you want more examples of what these could be used for.

omg thank you for the nonspecific examples!

Hey man, great video. Do you have any idea how to use get_drag_data but with right click instead?

Sometimes all you need is something simple, thanks I never knew Godot has a built in function for drag and drop item TwT

Nice tutorial bro

Seems like it would be difficult to make something like the olden times gee-whiz Mac OS X dock where the icons grew and shrank and slid around in proximity to the mouse, since control nodes all tend to get a fixed size inside their parent. Might be an interesting experiment.

What are the 1st lines codes, from the texturebutton Gscript?

Great video, but how are you triggering these functions. Every time I drag, the sprite interferes with checking the room for an input event.

Hi. I'm working on a game in godot, sort of a simple game where you put some cards in order and I'm very new to Godot and i thought that it would be simple to verify if one card is in its correct slot. For example i have card 8 in slot 5 it there would be a red cross icon, and when you have card 5 in slot 5 you get a green check icon. But with this method I'm guessing you have to verify the texture data because the texture buttons dont actually move. You did mention this when setting minecraft as an example, but I can't figure this out and it took a couple of days until I've given up. I've tried making the buttons have their own script and trying to verify the path of the texture to be correct but I haven't found resources in the way of trying to make me understand how that is possible. Anyhow, if you have any idea what i could try I'd be more than happy. Thank you for the tutorial, very eazy to understand. Cheers nvm: figured it out.

Would be nice to have a downloadable

Hi, I just used your tutorial and I am getting an error stating “the identifier “DRAGPREVIEW” isn’t declared in the current scope. Is there a way to resolve that?

Hi i want to record audio by my phone while there is sound and play when the sound is stop. Like talking tom. How can i

can you make a screen panning tutorial?

i can't belive these functions existed i did the logic in _gui_input data for todot...

Nice tutorial. Can you share the code for this?

Bue then i cant show animations

SO close to being a dream tut. The idea is good, but you were too generic. Saying, "don't do what I did" is really frustrating without having a way TO do it. So, maybe put example code for two ways you might actually want to do it depending on use case? It would take 20 more seconds of video to give 2 example cases. If we don't know how else to drop it other than use the dictionary (bc you taught us that way), what do we do from there? So, generic is good but we have to be able to see specific cases or it doesn't make sense and we can't apply what we learned without desperately searching for that exact thing in another tutorial (and it's not given in another one using your methods). I appreciate the general idea, and hope you can find a happy medium. Also, you never show the top of your code at the beginning. A FULL scroll through would really help. Last thing: Sprite2D was random choice, especially if we have very specific things we are dragging using 3d controls...are you saying make new scenes for every different object preview? There's got to be a way to just add transparency to the actual thing we are dragging as the preview and not make a whole scene? I'm trying to adapt this but it is not easy!

why not just actually move the thing instead of just switching the data?

im having trouble instancing DragPreview.. I keep getting errors such as: Invalid call. Nonexistent function 'instance' in base 'String'. and The identifier "DragPreview" isn't declared in the current scope. here's what i have var DragPreviewClass = preload("res://DragPreview.tscn") var DragPreview = null # added this in the beginning of the script so maybe it would work but it didn't... var DragPreview = DragPreview.instance() DragPreview.texture = texture_normal add_child(DragPreview)