# Desktop drag and drop onto Flash file

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/desktop-drag-and-drop-onto-flash-file/301455>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [December 9, 2009, 3:30pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/desktop-drag-and-drop-onto-flash-file/301455 "2009-12-09T15:30:42Z")\
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**Author:** ![knarfek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/96bed5/32.png) [@knarfek](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/knarfek)\
**Post date:** [December 9, 2009, 3:30pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/desktop-drag-and-drop-onto-flash-file/301455/1 "2009-12-09T15:30:42Z")

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Is it possible to drag a file (on the desktop) onto a flash swf or exe file and have Flash open and know what that file is and possibly perform some action on that?

Or hints as to where to begin to look for the actionscript functions for that if it might be possible?