public interface DropTargetListener extends SWTEventListener
DropTargetListener class provides event notification to the application
for DropTarget events.
As the user moves the cursor into, over and out of a Control that has been designated as a DropTarget, events indicate what operation can be performed and what data can be transferred if a drop where to occur at that point. The application can respond to these events and change the type of data that will be dropped by modifying event.currentDataType, or change the operation that will be performed by modifying the event.detail field or stop any drop from happening on the current target by setting the event.detail field to DND_DROP_NONE.
When the user causes a drop to happen by releasing the mouse over a valid drop target, the application has one last chance to change the data type of the drop through the DropAccept event. If the drop is still allowed, the DropAccept event is immediately followed by the Drop event. In the Drop event, the application can still change the operation that is performed but the data type is fixed.
DropTargetEvent| Modifier and Type | Method and Description |
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void |
dragEnter(DropTargetEvent event)
The cursor has entered the drop target boundaries.
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void |
dragLeave(DropTargetEvent event)
The cursor has left the drop target boundaries OR the drop has been cancelled OR the data
is about to be dropped.
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void |
dragOperationChanged(DropTargetEvent event)
The operation being performed has changed (usually due to the user changing the selected modifier key(s)
while dragging).
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void |
dragOver(DropTargetEvent event)
The cursor is moving over the drop target.
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void |
drop(DropTargetEvent event)
The data is being dropped.
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void |
dropAccept(DropTargetEvent event)
The drop is about to be performed.
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void dragEnter(DropTargetEvent event)
The following fields in the DropTargetEvent apply:
The operations value is determined by the modifier keys pressed by the user.
If no keys are pressed the event.detail field is set to DND.DROP_DEFAULT.
If the application does not set the event.detail to something other
than DND.DROP_DEFAULT the operation will be set to the platform defined standard
default.
The currentDataType is determined by the first transfer agent specified in
setTransfer() that matches a data type provided by the drag source.
It is possible to get a DragEnter event when the drag source does not provide any matching data. In this case, the default operation is DND.DROP_NONE and the currentDataType is null.
The application can change the operation that will be performed by modifying the
detail field but the choice must be one of the values in the operations
field or DND.DROP_NONE.
The application can also change the type of data being requested by
modifying the currentDataTypes field but the value must be one of the values
in the dataTypes list.
event - the information associated with the drag enter eventDropTargetEventvoid dragLeave(DropTargetEvent event)
The following fields in the DropTargetEvent apply:
event - the information associated with the drag leave eventDropTargetEventvoid dragOperationChanged(DropTargetEvent event)
The following fields in the DropTargetEvent apply:
The operations value is determined by the modifier keys pressed by the user.
If no keys are pressed the event.detail field is set to DND.DROP_DEFAULT.
If the application does not set the event.detail to something other than
DND.DROP_DEFAULT the operation will be set to the platform defined standard default.
The currentDataType value is determined by the value assigned to
currentDataType in previous dragEnter and dragOver calls.
The application can change the operation that will be performed by modifying the
detail field but the choice must be one of the values in the operations
field.
The application can also change the type of data being requested by modifying
the currentDataTypes field but the value must be one of the values in the
dataTypes list.
event - the information associated with the drag operation changed eventDropTargetEventvoid dragOver(DropTargetEvent event)
The following fields in the DropTargetEvent apply:
The operations value is determined by the value assigned to
currentDataType in previous dragEnter and dragOver calls.
The currentDataType value is determined by the value assigned to
currentDataType in previous dragEnter and dragOver calls.
The application can change the operation that will be performed by modifying the
detail field but the choice must be one of the values in the operations
field.
The application can also change the type of data being requested by modifying the
currentDataTypes field but the value must be one of the values in the
dataTypes list.
NOTE: At this point the data field is null. On some platforms, it is possible
to obtain the data being transferred before the transfer occurs but in most platforms this is
not possible. On those platforms where the data is available, the application can access the
data as follows:
public void dragOver(DropTargetEvent event) {
TextTransfer textTransfer = TextTransfer.getInstance();
String data = (String)textTransfer.nativeToJava(event.currentDataType);
if (data != null) {
System.out.println("Data to be dropped is (Text)"+data);
}
};
event - the information associated with the drag over eventDropTargetEventvoid drop(DropTargetEvent event)
The following fields in DropTargetEvent apply:
The application can refuse to perform the drop operation by setting the detail field to DND.DROP_NONE.
event - the information associated with the drop eventDropTargetEventvoid dropAccept(DropTargetEvent event)
The following fields in the DropTargetEvent apply:
The application can veto the drop by setting the event.detail field to
DND.DROP_NONE.
The application can change the operation that will be performed by modifying the
detail field but the choice must be one of the values in the
operations field.
The application can also change the type of data being requested by modifying the
currentDataTypes field but the value must be one of the values in the <
code>dataTypes list.
event - the information associated with the drop accept eventDropTargetEvent