Drag-and-drop to desktop

In IE, one can select the URL and drag it to the Windows desktop or anywhere else.
I want to implement the same functionality for my app: drag and drop a selection in the app to the desktop.
What flavors do I give the Transferable so that happens?
I wrote a test app to see what IE sends: two text/plain flavors. Almost obviously, I'm afraid to say, when I do the same from my Java app nothing happens.
And I don't seem to be able to find ANY documentation on the subject ...

I'm also looking for same, have you found any solutions elsewhere?

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NBW-Java wrote:
My Java application is bundled in a JAR (with a MAIN). On Windows (XP, Server 03+ and Windows 7) I would like to have it so the user can drag and drop files and/or folders onto the JAR's icon on the desktop and have it launch its MAIN passing in a list of java.io.File objects representing the dropped item(s).
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Can't drag and drop on desktop and I've tried all suggestions from previous threads

Yesterday I found that I can't drag and drop any files on my desktop. I get the white circle with a line through it when I try to drag anything. I can drag off of my desktop to my HD and to the trash but I can't drag anything back.
I've read all of the previous threads about it and have tried all of the poetntail fixes including:
Creating a new user account and switching back and forth
Sleep / Wake
Relaunching Finder
Checking the Dragging option in Universal Access
Checking all of my settings in prefrences
(I don't have Air Display, Airparrot or any of the other listed problematic 3rd party programs)
I even reinstalled Lion and the problem still exists
Anybody have any other pointers, or should I head into the Genius Bar?

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Back up all data now. Before proceeding, you must be sure you can restore your system to its present state
Launch the Terminal application in any of the following ways:
☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
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sudo !!
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Next, boot into Recovery by holding down the key combination command-R at startup. Release the keys when you see a gray screen with a spinning dial.
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Select your username from the menu labeled Select the user account if not already selected.
Under Reset Home Directory Permissions and ACLs, click the Reset button.
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How to drag and drop to desktop

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Can no longer drag and drop icons

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Message Edited by corrado on 07-21-2008 08:55 AM

Any Idea how to fix the problem that I am getting when using the (Company,Last Name) and the contacts being out of order in the calander ? I have some last names starting with A then it goes to D then a B then a stack more A and none of then have a Company field filled out in them in them...
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Drag and drop .webloc to desktop - placement question

Using an iMac with a secondary display...
General:
• What governs the location of an item dragged-and-dropped on to the desktop?
• Is this user-modifiable?
Specific:
While doing research, browsing the Web, I routinely save links by dragging the favicon located to the left of the URL of the currently displayed page to the desktop. This seems to work for all the modern browsers I've tried. I've done this for years with no problem.
Until recently, the resulting .webloc file icon lands on the spot where I finish dragging. Recently, the .webloc icon won't go there; instead it ends up in the apparent default location -- which at the moment is the middle-right of my main display. If there are open windows over that region --and there usually are on my very busy desktop-- I have to go to extra steps to get to the .weblocs. This new behavior occurs in the latest versions of Firefox, Safari, and Chrome.
This is about dropping .webloc files on the desktop. Dropping them on an open folder continues to work correctly. Dopping an ordinary item (file or folder) from an open folder to the desktop also works normally.
Suspicion:
I recently moved the external display from the physical right to the left of the main display and adjusted System Preferences-->Displays-->Arrangement accordingly.
Bottom line:
How can I restore the usual behavior, so the favicons become .webloc files exactly where I put them on the desktop?
Note: I know that F11 puts all open windows temporarily aside and I use that. But it ought to be possible to place those webloc files where I want them without any extra step.
TIA

This problem was fixed by installing 10.9.

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