[Feature] When pasting i'd like it to only paste when hovering the dropzone

[bretto36]

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Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

I've been using this package through Filament and have come to a point in my project where i have 2 filepond instances on the page.. The problem is, when pasting BOTH instances get the file and process it.

I was wondering if there was a way to ensure only the instance that is being hovered would be able to handle the paste.

I've been trying for a couple of hours to do it myself but i just don't know enough about the structure of Filepond

Describe the solution you'd like

I'd love a pasteOnHover: true parameter to be able to be passed.

Describe alternatives you've considered

I tried destroying the component when not on screen but that cause too many issues.

I've tried changing the createPaster.js but can't seem to get it to work. Wondering if anyone else has some ideas i could try and implemnt in a PR

[bretto36]

#1048 created a PR for this

[rikschennink]

#794 (comment)

Does this solution resolve the issue for you?

[anonghuser]

honestly this doesn't make sense to me, hover is mouse operation, paste is keyboard operation, why would tieing the two together ever be good ux? all cases i can imagine would need to look at focus or visibility of form controls and filepond widgets, not mouse hover. what am i missing?

[bretto36]

#794 (comment)

Does this solution resolve the issue for you?

Yeah that was my comment haha. I was able to easily solve it in filament after lots of wasted time. Thanks for being an active package maintainer!

[bretto36]

honestly this doesn't make sense to me, hover is mouse operation, paste is keyboard operation, why would tieing the two together ever be good ux? all cases i can imagine would need to look at focus or visibility of form controls and filepond widgets, not mouse hover. what am i missing?

@anonghuser you can paste using mouse too though. Right click and paste. It's surprising and sad how many people in my organization don't use Ctrl V but use right click and paste

I was able to solve it for my use case in filamentphp very simply so sticking with that

[anonghuser]

@bretto36 you can only do that in text fields, not on generic html elements like file pond is made of. also, even with text fields, hover has nothing to do with it - during the right click itself the mouse is technically hovering the field, sure, but when the paste command is selected the mouse would often already be offset away from it. focus is what's relevant here.