# Drag and Drop from the Desktop

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/drag-and-drop-from-the-desktop/162677>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [September 15, 2005, 9:02am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/drag-and-drop-from-the-desktop/162677 "2005-09-15T09:02:51Z")\
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**Author:** ![ibex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/ecc23a/32.png) [@ibex](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/ibex)\
**Post date:** [September 15, 2005, 9:02am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/drag-and-drop-from-the-desktop/162677/1 "2005-09-15T09:02:51Z")

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I was wondering if the following is possible:

Have a movie clip simple rectangle with its window focus as being always on top and to act as a drop zone so that if a user were to drag a file from their desktop or windows explorer onto the rectangle that the name of the file could be displayed in a message box or the rectangle itself ?

Can a flash movie interact with objects dragged onto it from outside the flash movie ?

My other question is, it possible to gather all the metadata for a file eg if a word doc can the name, author, date created etc be accessed with the example above ?

If so what code would achieve this?

:look: