No longer trigger an event, but directly delete a clip which is no longer needed during drag/drop. This solves a nasty asny issue where a clip would "stick" on the timeline, due to out of order JS and Python calls

Author: jonoomph

src/classes/thumbnail.py

@@ -127,11 +127,6 @@ def log_error(self, msg_format, *args):
         log.error(msg_format % args)
 
     def do_GET(self):
-        # Pause processing of request (since we don't currently use thread pooling, this allows
-        # the threads to be processed without choking the CPU as much
-        # TODO: Make HTTPServer work with a limited thread pool and remove this sleep() hack.
-        time.sleep(0.01)
-
         """ Process each GET request and return a value (image or file path)"""
         # Parse URL
         url_output = REGEX_THUMBNAIL_URL.match(self.path)
@@ -196,4 +191,9 @@ def do_GET(self):
                 self.wfile.write(open(thumb_path, 'rb').read())
             else:
                 self.wfile.write(bytes(thumb_path, "utf-8"))
-        return
+
+        # Pause processing of request (since we don't currently use thread pooling, this allows
+        # the threads to be processed without choking the CPU as much
+        # TODO: Make HTTPServer work with a limited thread pool and remove this sleep() hack.
+        time.sleep(0.01)
+

src/windows/views/timeline_webview.py

@@ -3029,10 +3029,20 @@ def dragLeaveEvent(self, event):
         # Accept event
         event.accept()
 
+        # Clear selected clips
+        get_app().window.removeSelection(self.item_id, self.item_type)
+
         if self.item_type == "clip":
-            get_app().window.actionRemoveClip.trigger()
+            # Delete dragging clip
+            clips = Clip.filter(id=self.item_id)
+            for c in clips:
+                c.delete()
+
         elif self.item_type == "transition":
-            get_app().window.actionRemoveTransition.trigger()
+            # Delete dragging transitions
+            transitions = Transition.filter(id=self.item_id)
+            for t in transitions:
+                t.delete()
 
         # Clear new clip
         self.new_item = False