Note

If you want the contents of any drop zone to be invisible until an item enters the drop zone, simply ensure a qq-hide-dropzone attribute is present on the drop zone container.

Fine Uploader’s UI mode has drag & drop support built in. The following contains information about that built-in support. Near the middle of this page, you can find instructions that will allow you to easily integrate Fine Uploader’s standalone drag & drop module into your project if you are using Fine Uploader’s core mode only.

Note

While dragging and dropping of files is supported in many browsers, Dragging and dropping of folders is currently only supported in Chrome 21+ & Opera 15+

Drag and Drop Standalone Module

If you are integrating Fine Uploader and utilizing FineUploaderBasic mode, you are likely building you own UI entirely. In case you want to support drag and drop of folders and files, you probably don’t want to re-invent the wheel, since Fine Uploader already has code to handle this in Fine Uploader mode. Fine Uploader’s drag & drop code has been moved into a standalone module, so it can be easily integrated into your Fine Uploader Core mode app (or even any non-Fine Uploader app). This following will explain how to utilize this module.

Note

This module is aimed at Fine Uploader Core mode integrators only. If you are running this in UI mode, then take a look at the dragAndDrop options defined above.

Options

allowMultipleItems

Set to false if you would to prevent the user from dropping more than one item at once.

Type:: boolean
Default Value:: `true`

dropZoneElements

Specify all container elements that should be treated as drop zones.

Type:: Array
Default Value:: `[ ]`

classes

dropActive

Specify a CSS class to apply to drop zone(s) when a file has entered it.

Type:: String
Default Value:: ''

Events

processingDroppedFiles

Invoked when the module has started processing the set of dropped files.

processingDroppedFilesComplete

Invoked when the module has finished processing.

Parameters:

Array
files: An array of processed files. Note that a qqPath property will be added to each File object that was dropped as part of a directory drop. The value of this property will be the path of the file starting with the dropped top-level directory.; HTMLElement
dropTarget: The target where this event originated from.

dropError

Called when processing the drop fails for any reason.

Parameters:

String
errorCode: The specific error code; String
errorRelatedData: Data related to the error.

dropLog

Invoked when a message is logged.

Parameters:

String
message: The message to log.

Methods

dispose

Tears down all drop zones associated with the dnd instance.

setupExtraDropzone

Call this to add an additional drop zone to the DnD instance. Not available if using the jQuery plug-in wrapper.

Parameters:

HTMLElement
element: THe HTMLElement where the dropzone will be rendered inside of.

removeDropzone

Call this to remove a drop zone from the DnD instance. Not available if using the jQuery plug-in wrapper.

Parameters:

HTMLElement
element: THe HTMLElement where the dropzone will be remove from.

jQuery Example

For jQuery users, a jQuery-wrapped DnD module is also available in the combined and minified Fine Uplpoader javascript file. This jQuery wrapper follows the same conventions as the jQuery plug-in that wraps the uploader library. To read more about these conventions, please see the Using jQuery plug-in readme document.

There are a couple things to be aware of when using the DnD standalone module via the jQuery plug-in wrapper: The only API method available is dispose. This restriction is in place since the other API functions don’t really make sense in the context of a jQuery plug-in. The target of your plug-in instance takes the place of the dropZoneElements option. Do not pass a dropZoneElements option, it will be ignored.

Here is the above example rewritten using the jQuery plug-in wrappers:

$('#myDropZone').fineUploaderDnd({
    classes: {
        dropActive: "cssClassToAddToDropZoneOnEnter"
    }
})
    .on('processingDroppedFiles', function(event) {
        //TODO: display some sort of a "processing" or spinner graphic
    })
    .on('processingDroppedFilesComplete', function(event, files, dropTarget) {
        //TODO: hide spinner/processing graphic

        $('#fineUploaderBasicContainer').fineUploader('addFiles', files); //this submits the dropped files to Fine Uploader
    });

$('#fineUploaderBasicContainer').fineUploader({
    request: {
        endpoint: "server/uploadHandler"
    }
});

Note

jQuery 1.7+ is required to use the on function.

Non-jQuery Example

If you are not utilizing jQuery, you can use the plain javascript DnD module. Here is a simple example:

var dragAndDropModule = new qq.DragAndDrop({
        dropZoneElements: [document.getElementById('myDropZone')],
        classes: {
          dropActive: "cssClassToAddToDropZoneOnEnter"
        },
        callbacks: {
          processingDroppedFiles: function() {
            //TODO: display some sort of a "processing" or spinner graphic
          },
          processingDroppedFilesComplete: function(files, dropTarget) {
            //TODO: hide spinner/processing graphic

            fineUploaderBasicInstance.addFiles(files); //this submits the dropped files to Fine Uploader
          }
        }
      }),

    fineUploaderBasicInstance = new qq.FineUploaderBasic({
    request: {
        endpoint: "server/uploadHandler"
    }
  });

For more information, see the associated blog post