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Drag and Drop: New Data Transfer Capabilities in the JavaTM 2 Platform, Standard Edition (J2SETM), version 1.4(12) When run, the program will look like the following screen, however, your images will probably differ. Try to copy only small images to the button as it isn't in a JScrollPane. Only the label supports large images.  Java.sun.com/images/release_data_copy.jpg" width=400>
Drag & DropThis leads us up to how the 1.4 release of the J2SE supports drag-and-drop operations. The drag-and-drop operation is the transferring of data between objects, triggered by a gesture of the mouse or other pointing device. Prior versions of the platform required intricate work to get drag-and-drop going. For the new release, times have changed considerably. In some cases, all you have to do is call the setDragEnabled method of the component. In other cases, you need to associate a TransferHandler to the component. In all cases, the data to transfer must implement the Transferable interface, but now in many cases that part is already done. For instance, if you want to support drag-and-drop operations within a JTextField, all you have to do is call the setDragEnabled method of the class, and the contents of the field are draggable. JTextField tf = new JTextField();tf.setDragEnabled(true); This default behavior is available with many of the Swing components: JColorChooser JEditorPane JFileChooser JFormattedTextField JList JPassWordField JTable JTextArea JTextField JTextPane JTree
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