How to reduce Drag distance?

Asonero

I am using the native functions of godot (_get_drag_data() ),
but i cannot find how to reduce the drag distance (the distance from which the drag starts) from 10pixels to 3 pixels.
Please tell me there is a variable exposed somewhere and it's not hardcoded in the engine.

xyz

Asonero Are you sure the distance is as large as 10px? I haven't checked but editor controls should be using the same distance and it appears to be smaller. In fact Godot may be using OS gui settings for drag/drop sensitivity.

Anyway, I'm not aware of a way to affect it directly from Godot, but you can use force_drag() instead of _get_drag_data() to start the drag whenever you want. Just track what the mouse is doing via control's _gui_input() and then call force_drag() when conditions are met.

Armynator

Asonero Please tell me there is a variable exposed somewhere and it's not hardcoded in the engine.

Sadly it is currently hardcoded to exactly 10, see _gui_input_event in scene/main/viewport.cpp: https://github.com/godotengine/godot/blob/6c9aa4c7d3b9b91cd50714c40eeb234874df7075/scene/main/viewport.cpp#L2018C7-L2018C8

The only way around that atm is to recompile the engine or to use Control::force_drag instead with your own checks in place.

kuligs2

Armynator why cant you recompile? its real easy, even i could do that, and im new here

xyz

Armynator Hm, that's interesting. It's not even a named constant, just a magic number right there in the middle of the code 😮

Yeah, try it with force_drag() as described above.

Armynator

I implemented it as public property and opened a PR: https://github.com/godotengine/godot/pull/110245

If you really need that change right now, feel free to use the code from the PR to compile a custom Godot version. With that patch applied, you can easily change it in the project settings or set it at runtime through code like this: get_viewport().gui_drag_threshold = 3