Automatic script when a file is dragged&droped

[brianjoubert]

Hi,

I was wondering if it would be possible to run a short python script each time a file is dragged and dropped. Basically now I am loading a json file as a dataframe in a jupyter notebook, applying some filtering and conversion and then I open PandasGUI with this dataframe. This works very well but I wanted to know if I could include this small script somewhere to do it automatically when someone does drag and drop a file in PandasGUI?

Thanks again for this really nice project!

[adamerose]

I plan to add support for plugins eventually which would make this kind of thing easier, for this case maybe the plugin API would include the ability to connect functions to event listeners and file load would be one possible event.

But as of now, this use case is too niche for me to add to the main project - I think you could probably do this yourself though via subclassing. Take a look at gui.py (pandasgui.gui) specifically the dropEvent method. You have two options....

• Modify this in the pandasgui source code
  • this would mean you're now maintaining a fork and getting updates might be a hassle
• Subclass the PandasGui class and override the dropEvent method
  • This would mean you have to explicitly instantiate the class instead of calling the pandasgui.show helper method

[brianjoubert]

Thanks a lot,

I will give it a try. The plugin idea is actually definitely a good idea also