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Dragons

Posted by Matt Gerrans on October 26, 2001 at 11:51 PM

Okay, I feel pretty sheepish about that silly socket comment, especially now that I looked a little at java.awt.dnd (at first I thought you were referring to Dungeons and Dragons, or something). I was just trying to drive home the statement that I hadn't done drag and drop with Java, but do I know you shouldn't hose the clipboard in the process. There is a more in-depth article on the subject at JavaWorld:
http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-03-1999/jw-03-dragndrop.html

- mfg

> While I feel reading from/writing to local host is a nice idea, its like reinventing the wheel. We have an excellent framework in dnd.* and datatransfer.* Extending those classes builds a good piece of software.

> In my opinion, extending DataFlavor to include a field (imageFlavor) and using DragSource.startDrag() which takes an image as a parameter should solve the problem.

> or simply, drag the path of the image and let the target container take care of loading the image.

> Anyways, Avin, let us know how you finished it (or if you need more ideas)!

> -Jay.