drag file onto bounding area of kivy widget - kivy

Question

I want to display an Image when I drag a .png into a specific area of my Kivy window. I've been trying to visualize the bounding area of my widgets and layouts using
canvas.before:
Color:
rgb: 1, 0, 0
Rectangle:
pos: self.pos
size: self.size
However I'm not convinced I understand this yet, because of the behavior I get with the following:
#!/usr/bin/env python3
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
"""
Created on Sun Nov 20 08:42:50 2022
#author: erik
"""
import kivy
kivy.require('2.1.0')
from kivy.app import App
from kivy.lang import Builder
from kivy.uix.boxlayout import BoxLayout
from kivy.properties import StringProperty
from kivy.core.window import Window
Builder.load_string('''
<MyLayout>:
padding: 20,20, 20, 20
id: img_box
orientation: 'vertical'
size_hint_min_x: self.minimum_width
size_hint_min_y: self.minimum_height
canvas.before:
Color:
rgb: 1, 0, 0
Rectangle:
pos: self.pos
size: self.size
Splitter:
sizable_from: 'bottom'
id: dig_img_spltr
canvas.before:
Color:
rgb: 1, 1, 0
Rectangle:
pos: self.pos
size: self.size
#keep_within_parent: True
rescale_with_parent: True
Image:
id: dig_img
Button:
text: 'hello'
size_hint: .6,.6
pos_hint: {'center_x': .5, 'center_y':.5}
''')
class MyLayout(BoxLayout):
digimgfilePath = StringProperty('')
def __init__(self, **kwargs):
super(MyLayout, self).__init__(**kwargs)
Window.bind(on_drop_file=self._on_file_drop)
def _on_file_drop(self, window, filename, x, y):
'''
Documentataion for on_drop_file
doesn't show window parameter. I
found this out with locals()
'''
print(f'x: {x}')
print(f'y: {y}')
x_lower_bound = self.ids.dig_img_spltr.pos[0]
x_upper_bound = self.ids.dig_img_spltr.pos[0] + self.ids.dig_img_spltr.width
y_lower_bound = self.ids.dig_img_spltr.pos[1]
y_upper_bound = self.ids.dig_img_spltr.pos[1] + self.ids.dig_img_spltr.height
print(f'xlb {x_lower_bound}')
print(f'xub {x_upper_bound}')
print(f'ylb {y_lower_bound}')
print(f'yub {y_upper_bound}')
print()
#if x_lower_bound < x < x_upper_bound and y_lower_bound < y < y_upper_bound:
if self.ids.dig_img_spltr.collide_point(x,y):
self.digimgfilePath = filename.decode("utf-8") # convert byte to string
self.ids.dig_img.source = self.digimgfilePath
self.ids.dig_img.reload() # reload image
class sliderdropApp(App):
def build(self):
return MyLayout()
if __name__ == '__main__':
sliderdropApp().run()
What I want, and expect, is for a image (.png for example) to be displayed when I drop the file into the area above the splitter. But I can't make sense of the area where collide_point returns True. It returns True when I drop the file within some un-explainable margin above and below the splitter. After I do get an image to display, the splitter canvas does to turn yellow above the splitter. Is this yellow area defined by the canvas not the same area of the splitter? Why doesn't collide_point return True when I drop on the area colored by the splitter's canvas?

Answer 1

The y dimension from the on_drop_file event is inverted from the window coordinates. If I send (x, Window.size[1] - y) to collide_point, it works as I expect and intent it to.