Then Comes Drag and Drop
The Drag and Drop API is located in the java.awt.dnd package and consists of 4 interfaces and 15 classes. When you first encounter java.awt.dnd, you'll probably feel overwhelmed. After all, there's a lot of infrastructure to Drag and Drop. However, after you've learned the basics, this feeling will dissipate.
Drag and Drop uses the concepts of drag sources and drop targets. A drag source is an object associated with a component that serves as the source of a drag-and-drop operation. In contrast, a drop target is an object associated with a component that serves as the target of a drag-and-drop operation. So what gets dragged (and subsequently dropped)? It turns out that Drag and Drop uses transferables to encapsulate ...
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