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You can drag and drop items from one VI or control to another VI or control. Dragging items from VI to VI and control to control are built-in LabVIEW behaviors for string, tree, listbox, and multicolumn listbox controls. You can configure drag and drop events for other controls programmatically by using the Start Drag method and the control events. You also can use drag and drop events to configure the behavior of a drag on controls programmatically. This feature is useful if you want to allow the user to drag one element of a listbox to another listbox.

Note  Because events are not available in the LabVIEW Base Package, you can run VIs in the LabVIEW Base Package in which the drag method is configured programmatically using events, but you cannot further configure the method using events. You can use events to configure the drag method in LabVIEW Full and Professional Development Systems.