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Dragging files to a program

Techno Mage	17 Feb, 2008 - 06:20 AM Post #1
D.I.C Head Joined: 10 Jun, 2007 Posts: 61 My Contributions	A few times, I've seen programs where, instead of clicking on it to make it work, you click and drag a file on top of its icon and it does the work. How could I do this in Java?
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dontKnowJava	RE: Dragging Files To A Program 17 Feb, 2008 - 08:51 AM Post #2
D.I.C Head Joined: 29 Sep, 2007 Posts: 213 My Contributions	try MouseEvent and MouseListener classes when file coordinates = icon coordinates you start your program
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1lacca	RE: Dragging Files To A Program 17 Feb, 2008 - 09:53 AM Post #3
code.rascal Joined: 11 Aug, 2005 Posts: 3,822 Thanked: 12 times My Contributions	I think it is an OS feature, and it calls your program with the dragged file as a parameter. So its path and name should be received as a command line argument. I haven't looked into it, but that is my guess (maybe some other configuration is needed).
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Tom9729	RE: Dragging Files To A Program 17 Feb, 2008 - 11:49 AM Post #4
Debian guru Joined: 30 Dec, 2007 Posts: 1,592 Thanked: 12 times Dream Kudos: 325 My Contributions	http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/ui.../dnd/intro.html
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1lacca	RE: Dragging Files To A Program 17 Feb, 2008 - 12:18 PM Post #5
code.rascal Joined: 11 Aug, 2005 Posts: 3,822 Thanked: 12 times My Contributions	I think that he is not looking for dragging a file onto a Java window, but dragging a file onto the Java program in windows, so the java program is launched and it uses the dropped file as input.
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Tom9729	RE: Dragging Files To A Program 17 Feb, 2008 - 01:00 PM Post #6
Debian guru Joined: 30 Dec, 2007 Posts: 1,592 Thanked: 12 times Dream Kudos: 325 My Contributions	QUOTE(1lacca @ 17 Feb, 2008 - 01:18 PM) I think that he is not looking for dragging a file onto a Java window, but dragging a file onto the Java program in windows, so the java program is launched and it uses the dropped file as input. http://www.java2s.com/Code/Java/Swing-JFC/...DropTarget2.htm
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1lacca	RE: Dragging Files To A Program 17 Feb, 2008 - 02:58 PM Post #7
code.rascal Joined: 11 Aug, 2005 Posts: 3,822 Thanked: 12 times My Contributions	I know DnD in Swing, what I am trying to get through, is that he wrote that he would like to drag the other file onto the ICON of his program, so I suppose that it is NOT RUNNING when he drops the file onto it. Swing DnD simply won't do anything in this situation. However in windows it is possible to drag a file onto the ICON of a console program that does not have ANY WINDOWS, and it will take it as input (I think the Lame mp3 encoder had a command line version that worked like this if you dragged a wav file onto it, it converted it to mp3). Anyway I think we have to wait for the poster to clarify his intentions.
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