Drag and Drop
When you use cut and paste to transmit information between two programs, the clipboard acts as an intermediary. The drag and drop metaphor cuts out the middleman and lets two programs communicate directly. The Java platform offers basic support for drag and drop. You can carry out drag and drop operations between Java applications and native applications. This section shows you how to write a Java application that is a drop target, and an application that is a drag source.
Before going deeper into the Java platform support for drag and drop, let us quickly look at the drag and drop user interface. We use the Windows Explorer and WordPad programs as examples—on another platform, you can experiment with locally available programs ...
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