Drag and Drop

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

Enhancements

• 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

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

Drag and Drop API Specification

Related Information

Located on the Java Software website:

• The JFC Home Page