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New release: Drag and Drop, absolute positioning and clickable container

· 2 min read
Feodor Fitsner

We have just released Flet 0.1.41 with drag-and-drop support and other neat features such as absolute positioning of controls inside stack and clickable container!

Drag and Drop​

Making drag-and-drop in Flet is a real joy - thanks to a smart drag-and-drop implementation in Flutter! You just have "draggable" control which could be dragged to a "drag target" which calls on_accept event handler when draggable is dropped.

Take a look at Drag-and-Drop example.

Explore Draggable and DragTarget controls, their properties and events.

Absolute positioning inside Stack​

All visible controls now have left top, right and bottom properties to let them be absolutely positioned inside Stack, for example:

import flet as ft

def main(page: ft.Page):

    page.horizontal_alignment = ft.CrossAxisAlignment.CENTER
    page.vertical_alignment = ft.MainAxisAlignment.CENTER

    page.add(
        ft.Container(
            ft.Stack(
                [
                    ft.Text("1", color=ft.colors.WHITE),
                    ft.Text("2", color=ft.colors.WHITE, right=0),
                    ft.Text("3", color=ft.colors.WHITE, right=0, bottom=0),
                    ft.Text("4", color=ft.colors.WHITE, left=0, bottom=0),
                    ft.Text("5", color=ft.colors.WHITE, left=40, top=35),
                ]
            ),
            border_radius=8,
            padding=5,
            width=100,
            height=100,
            bgcolor=ft.colors.BROWN_700,
        )
    )

ft.app(target=main)

Clickable container​

Container control has got on_click event which allows you to make a button from any control and with a beautiful material ripple effect when ink is set to True!

See source code for the example above.

Give Flet a try and let us know what you think!