Drag and Drop

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

• Enhancements in Java 2 Platform 1.4 include new support for data transfer using Swing. See Swing Data Transfer.

• Enhancements in previous release Java 2 Platform 1.3 included two new methods in class java.awt.datatransfer.DataFlavor.
  • getReaderForText(Transferable transferable)
  • selectBestTextFlavor(DataFlavor[] availableFlavors)
  Without the use of these 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. These methods deliver ISO8859-1 text instead of unicode text to avoid this problem.

• Drag and Drop Specification. Also available in postscript and pdf

• java.awt.dnd
  

Located on the website:

• The JFC Home Page

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