Drag and Drop Mouse Events in Tkinter

<B1-Motion> Mouse Left button Press and move

We can read the x ( horizontal ) and y ( vertical ) coordinates of the mouse pointer when left buton is pressed and mouse is in motion.

Here is the script to display x and y coordinates when mouse is in motion ( left button is pressed )

Used one Label to display the coordinates. By using config() inside a callback function my_callback() we will update the text option of the Label by displaying the changing values of x and y coordinates.

Here is the event which will trigger the callback function my_callback()

my_w.bind('<B1-Motion>',my_callback)

Full code is here.

import tkinter as tk my_w = tk.Tk()my_w.geometry("615x400")  # width and height def my_callback(event):     l1.config(text='Position x : '+ str(event.x) +", y : "+ str(event.y))l1=tk.Label(my_w,text='to Display',bg='yellow',font=30)l1.pack(padx=10,pady=10)my_w.bind('<B1-Motion>',my_callback) # Mouse left button pressed movemy_w.mainloop()

Tkinter Drag and Drop image using Left mouse button press and move event using canvas

Adding image and canvas

We will add one canvas to the above window and place one image inside the canvas.

f_img = tk.PhotoImage(file = "D:\\top2.png") # path of the imagemy_c = tk.Canvas(my_w,width=600,height=400) # canvas size my_c.pack() # place on pack my_img = my_c.create_image(180, 50,  image=f_img) # add image to canvas

Drag and Drop ( DND )

We will move the image by updating the x and y coordinates of the image ( inside the canvas ) by reading the event.x and event.y values.

import tkinter as tk 
my_w = tk.Tk()
my_w.geometry("615x400")  # width and height def my_callback(event):
    global f_img
    l1.config(text='Position x : '+ str(event.x) +", y : "+ str(event.y))
    f_img = tk.PhotoImage(file = "D:\\top2.png") 
    my_img = my_c.create_image(event.x, event.y,  image=f_img)
l1=tk.Label(my_w,text='to Display',bg='yellow',font=30)l1.pack(padx=10,pady=5)
f_img = tk.PhotoImage(file = "D:\\top2.png") # path of the image
my_c = tk.Canvas(my_w,width=600,height=400) # canvas size 
my_c.pack() # place on pack 
my_img = my_c.create_image(180, 50,  image=f_img) # add image to canvas
my_w.bind('<B1-Motion>',my_callback) # Mouse left button pressed movemy_w.mainloop()

Drag and Drop a Button without using Canvas

Mouse Drag & Drop a button in a Tkinter Window

We will use place to position widgets as we need varying x and y coordinates.
Here we used one Button, but any other widget can be used.

import tkinter as tk 
my_w = tk.Tk()
my_w.geometry("615x400")  # width and height 
def my_callback(event):
     l1.config(text='Position x : '+ str(event.x) +", y : "+ str(event.y))
     bt1.pack_forget() # remove the button
     bt1.place(x=event.x,y=event.y) # create at new coordinate
l1=tk.Label(my_w,text='to Display',bg='yellow',font=30)
l1.place(x=0,y=0)

bt1=tk.Button(my_w,text='Button',bg='lightgreen',font=12)
bt1.place(x=150,y=180,anchor='se')
my_w.bind('<B1-Motion>',my_callback) # Mouse left button pressed move

my_w.mainloop()

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