Dragging and Dropping from Explorer

I'm interested in getting some very simple resources on how to do drag and drop support from windows explorer/whatever in a Swing application.
(I realize DnD is in awt, but I figured here is still a good place)

Please don't RTFM me, I'm smart enough to research those documents on my own. If I'm here it's because they haven't helped or I haven't been able to find that one "magic tutorial" that says it all.
Your link doesn't help at all.
I'd like to have some simple resources on getting drag and drop working with EXPLORER (or any native file manager).
Not between java applications, and I need the document to be simple. At best, someone might have the kindness to just outline the objects and the required actions to extract a filename from something dragged onto an application from a file manager.
Maybe even a sample! Who knows?

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I'm having the same problem. I used to be able to drag files from a music folder into my itunes library by selecting the songs (multiple songs if need be) then just pulling them over to itunes (toward the top, library section). Viola... songs would be added. Now... I can only get them into my itunes library by going to file - add file to library - then selecting the songs one at a time.
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I manage my music/podcast library on my Vista PC using windows explorer because I don't like how iTunes does it. Then today I can no longer drag and drop from explorer onto my iPod in iTunes all I get is a circle with a line through it meaning "iTunes says no." Any suggestions?
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You will need to Sync your iPad and all Music/Albums Selected will transfer over from iTunes..
iOS: Syncing your data with iTunes
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1386

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dj_paige wrote:
While the programming of course could be done, the idea of a function that performs on original unprocessed images seems to violate the whole idea of what Lightroom was designed to be. At least that's my opinion. Of course, the idea that Adobe should do this programming for a relatively small number of people (you're one of a very few people to ask for this, that I have read) seems to be something that isn't going to happen.
I agree, I can't see much reason for drag-and-drop to drag the unprocessed image - in other words, an image that isn't the one that you see when you drag and drop. I can see that just filling this forum with "why the heck does it do that????????" posts. I could be wrong, but I suspect that Adobe won't do that.
But if you do want to drag-and-drop the original unprocessed image, you can do it very easily now. Right click the image, choose "show in Explorer", and then drag-and-drop from Explorer.

Why I can't drag and drop from lightroom?

Something I would expect from asset managment soft. Am I missing something?

dj_paige wrote:
While the programming of course could be done, the idea of a function that performs on original unprocessed images seems to violate the whole idea of what Lightroom was designed to be. At least that's my opinion. Of course, the idea that Adobe should do this programming for a relatively small number of people (you're one of a very few people to ask for this, that I have read) seems to be something that isn't going to happen.
I agree, I can't see much reason for drag-and-drop to drag the unprocessed image - in other words, an image that isn't the one that you see when you drag and drop. I can see that just filling this forum with "why the heck does it do that????????" posts. I could be wrong, but I suspect that Adobe won't do that.
But if you do want to drag-and-drop the original unprocessed image, you can do it very easily now. Right click the image, choose "show in Explorer", and then drag-and-drop from Explorer.

Drag and Drop from LR to other applications

There was a thread going on D&D from LR to explorer.
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-- Jeff

No. And not likely anytime soon. Putting a Pointer/alias to SmugMug (if it is an uploader client app, not familiar with it) in the Export Actions Folder for Post Processing from Export is the best you can do at the monemt. To get LR rdits out of LR you have to Export. D&D just isn't going to do that for you.
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Drag and drop from Lightroom into Premiere doesn't work in Windows

I recently switched from OSX to Windows and noticed that in Windows, I'm unable to drag and drop from LIghtroom into Premiere. In OSX, it worked fine.
I do this a lot because it's a time saver. I basically use lightroom to find the photo or video clip I need for my editing project and then just drag in right on to the Premiere timeline. Now I have to do the extra step in Lightroom of "show in explorer", then drag the file from explorer to Premiere. Not really a big deal but just curious why it works in OSX and not Windows.
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You can obtain scripts here:
http://www.robcole.com/Rob/ProductsAndServices/MiscLrPlugins#MiscScripts
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http://www.robcole.com/Rob/ProductsAndServices/OpenInWhateverLrPlugin
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Drag and drop from pages tab

I am trying to drag a page from acrobat reader into a C# application. The only information i need from acrobat is the filename and the page number or numbers. Is this information accessible? Do i need to cast the dataObject i am being sent to a different type? Has anyone had success with drag and drop from inside accrobat to another application?
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Reader does NOT support dragging from the pages panel.
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I am trying to drag and drop one page of a .pdf into another .pdf in Acrobat Reader. I used to be able to drag and drop from one .pdf to another.

If you could drag and drop pages before, it wasn't in Reader. You no doubt had Adobe Acrobat (Pro or Standard) which shouldn't be confused with Adobe Acrobat Reader. They recently added Acrobat to the name of Adobe Reader so the confusion about which product you had and/or have is understandable.

Downloads dragged and dropped from Firefox download window into Outlook e-mail show as file location text.

I have a user who normally can drag files from Firefox's Download window into an e-mail in Outlook and it creates an attachment of that file in the e-mail. However, lately, the dragged .pdf or whatever file only shows up as a text file location like:
\\file:%Downloads%\randomfile.pdf
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I've tried doing a repair of Outlook.
I've uninstalled and reinstalled Firefox 19.
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I just wanted to add this user is using Windows XP Pro.

I can confirm that this is an issue with the newest release of Firefox. I just upgraded my Firefox, which was previously 18.02 to 19.0 and now I'm getting the same error. It's a bug.

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Hi Peterbruce,
Acrobat for Windows will let you select pages in the Pages panel and drag them to your desktop, but that isn't an option in Acrobat for Mac OS. You can drag thumbnails from the Pages panel in one doc, to the Pages panel in another, however.
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Are you dragging from the actual AddressBook application, or the Address icon you can add to the NewMail and Reply toolbars in Mail? (It ought to be there by default, but isn't).
Either should work, but if AB doesn't, try the icon method:

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My Indesign CS4 is acting up.
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That didn't work and I don't think the rebuilt worked because the files didn't recreate itself, I had to bring the copies back in.
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Drag and drop from Multicolumn listbox to another Multicolumn Listbox

how do i drag and drop from Multicolumn listbox to another Multicolumn Listbox?/...any example..
use LABVIEW 8.2.1
regard's
eyal.

To drag and drop within the target listbox you'll have to add a Drag Starting? event for the target listbox and register that drag data with a different adn unique Drag Data Name, then in the Drag Enter? event check for that data name as well before accepting the event, and then in the Drop? event for the target listbox handle the new data name as well. You can use the Point to Row Column invoke method to determine which row, column, or cell is being manipulated. I've created a VERY crude example of this, but you'll have to get more creative with how you handle the moving of rows, columns, etc. for the target listbox, but I think it gives the general idea. Hope this helps!
-rw
Attachments:
Drag and Drop Example v2 8.2.vi ‏28 KB

[svn:fx-trunk] 10876: Add support for drag-and-drop from Spark List to Spark List.

Revision: 10876
Author:   [email protected]
Date:     2009-10-05 15:20:07 -0700 (Mon, 05 Oct 2009)
Log Message:
Add support for drag-and-drop from Spark List to Spark List.
- List drop related handlers
- LayoutBase APIs
- VerticalLayout DND support
Notes:
- ListSkin is not final.
- Drag-scrolling not yet implemented.
QE notes: Only VerticalLayout works, HorizontalLayout still not implemented.
Doc notes: None
Bugs: None
Reviewer: Deepa
Tests run: checkintests
Is noteworthy for integration: No
Modified Paths:
    flex/sdk/trunk/frameworks/projects/spark/src/spark/components/List.as
    flex/sdk/trunk/frameworks/projects/spark/src/spark/layouts/VerticalLayout.as
    flex/sdk/trunk/frameworks/projects/spark/src/spark/layouts/supportClasses/LayoutBase.as
    flex/sdk/trunk/frameworks/projects/spark/src/spark/skins/spark/ListSkin.mxml
    flex/sdk/trunk/frameworks/spark-manifest.xml
Added Paths:
    flex/sdk/trunk/frameworks/projects/spark/src/spark/layouts/supportClasses/DropLocation.as

Whoops, disregard my question - I just read the spec that indicates drag and drop is scheduled for later work.
David

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