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Drag Behavior

The DragBehavior mixin class provides Drag behavior. When combined with a widget, dragging in the rectangle defined by the drag_rectangle will drag the widget.

Example

The following example creates a draggable label:

from kivy.uix.label import Label
from kivy.app import App
from kivy.uix.behaviors import DragBehavior
from kivy.lang import Builder

# You could also put the following in your kv file...
kv = '''
<DragLabel>:
    # Define the properties for the DragLabel
    drag_rectangle: self.x, self.y, self.width, self.height
    drag_timeout: 10000000
    drag_distance: 0

FloatLayout:
    # Define the root widget
    DragLabel:
        size_hint: 0.25, 0.2
        text: 'Drag me'
'''


class DragLabel(DragBehavior, Label):
    pass


class TestApp(App):
    def build(self):
        return Builder.load_string(kv)

TestApp().run()

class kivy.uix.behaviors.drag.DragBehavior(**kwargs)

Bases: builtins.object

The DragBehavior mixin provides Drag behavior. When combined with a widget, dragging in the rectangle defined by drag_rectangle will drag the widget. Please see the drag behaviors module documentation for more information.

New in version 1.8.0.

drag_distance

Distance to move before dragging the DragBehavior, in pixels. As soon as the distance has been traveled, the DragBehavior will start to drag, and no touch event will be dispatched to the children. It is advisable that you base this value on the dpi of your target device’s screen.

drag_distance is a NumericProperty and defaults to the scroll_distance as defined in the user Config (20 pixels by default).

drag_rect_height

Height of the axis aligned bounding rectangle where dragging is allowed.

drag_rect_height is a NumericProperty and defaults to 100.

drag_rect_width

Width of the axis aligned bounding rectangle where dragging is allowed.

drag_rect_width is a NumericProperty and defaults to 100.

drag_rect_x

X position of the axis aligned bounding rectangle where dragging is allowed (in window coordinates).

drag_rect_x is a NumericProperty and defaults to 0.

drag_rect_y

Y position of the axis aligned bounding rectangle where dragging is allowed (in window coordinates).

drag_rect_Y is a NumericProperty and defaults to 0.

drag_rectangle

Position and size of the axis aligned bounding rectangle where dragging is allowed.

drag_rectangle is a ReferenceListProperty of (drag_rect_x, drag_rect_y, drag_rect_width, drag_rect_height) properties.

drag_timeout

Timeout allowed to trigger the drag_distance, in milliseconds. If the user has not moved drag_distance within the timeout, dragging will be disabled, and the touch event will be dispatched to the children.

drag_timeout is a NumericProperty and defaults to the scroll_timeout as defined in the user Config (55 milliseconds by default).

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