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How to implement drag & drop functionality in your application |
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This Java tip illustrates a method of implementing drag & drop
functionality in your application. Deverlopers may use this tip
to provide extra functionality of drag and drop to their users.
The tip also includes method of determining the type of dragged
object. This may further help developers to change properties of
the dragged objets.
import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.dnd.*;
import java.awt.datatransfer.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
import java.io.*;
import java.util.*;
import javax.swing.*;
public class DropTest2 extends JFrame implements DropTargetListener {
DropTarget dt;
JTextArea ta;
public DropTest2() {
super("Drop Test");
setSize(300,300);
addWindowListener(new BasicWindowMonitor());
getContentPane().add(
new JLabel("Drop a list from your file chooser here:"),
BorderLayout.NORTH);
ta = new JTextArea();
ta.setBackground(Color.white);
getContentPane().add(ta, BorderLayout.CENTER);
// Set up our text area to recieve drops...
// This class will handle drop events
dt = new DropTarget(ta, this);
setVisible(true);
}
public void dragEnter(DropTargetDragEvent dtde) {
System.out.println("Drag Enter");
}
public void dragExit(DropTargetEvent dte) {
System.out.println("Drag Exit");
}
public void dragOver(DropTargetDragEvent dtde) {
System.out.println("Drag Over");
}
public void dropActionChanged(DropTargetDragEvent dtde) {
System.out.println("Drop Action Changed");
}
public void drop(DropTargetDropEvent dtde) {
try {
// Ok, get the dropped object and try to figure out what it is
Transferable tr = dtde.getTransferable();
DataFlavor[] flavors = tr.getTransferDataFlavors();
for (int i = 0; i < flavors.length; i++) {
System.out.println("Possible flavor: " + flavors[i].getMimeType());
// Check for file lists specifically
if (flavors[i].isFlavorJavaFileListType()) {
// Great! Accept copy drops...
dtde.acceptDrop(DnDConstants.ACTION_COPY_OR_MOVE);
ta.setText("Successful file list drop.\n\n");
// And add the list of file names to our text area
java.util.List list = (java.util.List)tr.getTransferData(flavors[i]);
for (int j = 0; j < list.size(); j++) {
ta.append(list.get(j) + "\n");
}
// If we made it this far, everything worked.
dtde.dropComplete(true);
return;
}
// Ok, is it another Java object?
else if (flavors[i].isFlavorSerializedObjectType()) {
dtde.acceptDrop(DnDConstants.ACTION_COPY_OR_MOVE);
ta.setText("Successful text drop.\n\n");
Object o = tr.getTransferData(flavors[i]);
ta.append("Object: " + o);
dtde.dropComplete(true);
return;
}
// How about an input stream?
else if (flavors[i].isRepresentationClassInputStream()) {
dtde.acceptDrop(DnDConstants.ACTION_COPY_OR_MOVE);
ta.setText("Successful text drop.\n\n");
ta.read(new InputStreamReader(
(InputStream)tr.getTransferData(flavors[i])),
"from system clipboard");
dtde.dropComplete(true);
return;
}
}
// Hmm, the user must not have dropped a file list
System.out.println("Drop failed: " + dtde);
dtde.rejectDrop();
} catch (Exception e) {
e.printStackTrace();
dtde.rejectDrop();
}
}
public static void main(String args[]) {
new DropTest2();
}
}
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