Drag and Drop
In the latest version of the SDK, all drag-and-drop (DnD) operations (for both Swing and AWT components) are supported through the interface java.awt.dnd. Listing 37.14 shows a typical DnD program.
Note
When a class implements an interface, the class must provide an implementation of every method in the interface. To implement a drag-and-drop target, a class must implement DropTargetListener. As shown in Listing 37.14, most of the work is done in dragEnter() and drop().
Code Listing 37.14. DnDTest.java—An Implementation of a DropTargetListener
import java.awt.*; import java.awt.dnd.*; import java.awt.datatransfer.*; import java.awt.event.*; import java.io.*; public class DnDTest extends Frame implements DropTargetListener { DropTarget ... |
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