Drag and Drop

Drag and Drop enables data transfer both across Java and native applications, between Java applications, and within a single Java application.

Drag and Drop Enhancements for Java^TM 2 SDK, Standard Edition, v 1.3

Enhancements to Drag and Drop in this release consist of 2 new methods in class java.awt.datatransfer.DataFlavor. getReaderForText(Transferable transferable) selectBestTextFlavor(DataFlavor[] availableFlavors) Without the use of the new methods, unicode-encoded text will not be dragged onto some native-application documents correctly (an extra character will be left at the beginning of the text. The new methods will deliver ISO8859-1 text instead of unicode text to avoid this problem.

Drag and Drop Specification

Drag and Drop Specification. Also available in postscript and pdf

Drag and Drop API Specification

java.awt.dnd

Related Information

Located on the Java Software website:

The JFC Home Page

Please send Drag and Drop comments to our Java Drag and Drop team: java-dnd@java.sun.com

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