Sound: Allow dragging and dropping the audio file from the Filesystem dock

[cassidyjames]

What Happened

I was following along with our own Block Coding pong tutorial on YouTube around 2:54, and tried to replicate apparently hallucinated Will's action of dragging and dropping a file onto the path. It didn't work, so I had to right-click and copy the path.

I feel like drag and drop is going to be extra important to our target demographic here.

How to Reproduce

1. Add a "Load file" block to the canvas
2. Try to drag an audio resource to the path

Block Coding Plugin Version

v0.6.1

Godot Engine Version

v4.2.2.stable.flathub [15073afe3]

Operating System

Fedora Silverblue 40

Logs or command-line output

No response

Anything else?

No response

[manuq]

@cassidyjames from the video it seems that @wnbaum is also copy/pasting the path, not doing drag and drop.

Besides, I wonder if this should be easier. Eg. all ogg files in the project could be blocks that can be dragged directly from the Picker (the blocks palette).

[cassidyjames]

Ah maybe I misunderstood what was happening in that video, then! But yeah, I guess this issue could be reworded to allow dragging and dropping the audio files, instead. :)

[manuq]

The easiest implementation would be:

• Allow dragging files from the Filesystem dock to the Block Coding canvas
• When dropped, a value block is created of type String and value res://..../ (the resource path)
• Then this block can be attached to the 1st slot of the current "load file () as sound ()".

A much better implementation but also a more complex one:

• Allow dragging sound files from the Filesystem dock to the Block Coding canvas.
• When dropped, the sound is preloaded at the top of the generated script using the resource path. An AudioStreamPlayer is instantiated automatically in the _ready() method using that resource. And a value block is created of type String to reference the AudioStreamPlayer instance by name. The name can be the last part of the path using String.get_file().
• The "play the sound (name)" and "stop the sound (name)" blocks would accept that block, but now the "load file () as sound (name)" block is not needed anymore.

[dsd]

Our partner org Endless Studios is offering a modest bounty for completion of this task
(mostly thinking of the easy implementation mentioned above - that could be a good starting point even if we later do the more complex one)
/bounty $40

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