If an iPod is in "use as hard disk" mode, could I drag and drop songs to it
After countless attempts to sync my iTunes into this iPod I just obtained, with iTunes, Finder, sometimes both programs hanging and freezing up, since I pick "use iPod as hard disk" as an option, couldn't I just drag and drop my iTunes tracks into the iPod via just a pair of Finder windows? I mean if it can work like a USB drive, I think it wouldn't be impossible to do the same with my songs, since they are just files as well, since I am having such a horrible ordeal syncing this iPod. I am on the verge of my 6th Restore in almost as many days and at best I could load songs into it one by one, but sometimes it would even balk for the most curious reasons such as:
song running over 5 1/2 minutes in length
song consisting of mp3 I d/l-ed elsewhere independent of iTunes Store
song purchased from iTunes a very long time ago
the 4th or 6th song in a row being synced, no matter the type
I have little idea why this iMac is giving me so much guff, as my sister has the same model that works without complaint for her.
Curses, foiled again! Maybe you additionally have an idea why my 4th gen 20 GB iPod seems to make Finder, iTunes, and occasionally Disk Utility hang and stop responding when all I am trying to do is attempt to make the iPod work as designed ie: accept my iTunes songs, keep them and have them available for playback. It is fully charged, yet most of the time it chokes when I am trying to Restore it, so every time I do manage to restore it, it takes about 4 or 5 incremental attempts of completing Restore until I get it going again. Then I am only able to get it running by manually loading the songs one track at a time until I get up to about 30 or so and it unravels upon my attempts to put all of them on, even adding them manually one song at a time.
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Hello,
How is the exact syntax in order for the following code to work even for Drag and Drop effects of the drawn figures.
package tpi;
import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
public class Desenare extends Frame{
private Panel selPanel;
private Choice sel;
private Choice fond;
private Choice lista;
private MyCanvas canvas;
public Desenare(String titlu){
super(titlu);
selPanel = new Panel(new GridLayout(6,1));
Label label1 = new Label("Culoare");
sel = new Choice();
sel.addItem("Alb");
sel.addItem("Albastru");
sel.addItem("Verde");
sel.addItem("Negru");
sel.select(0);
Label label2 = new Label("Figura");
lista = new Choice();
lista.addItem("Dreptunghi");
lista.addItem("Linie");
lista.addItem("Cerc");
lista.select(0);
Label label3 = new Label("Culoare Fond");
fond = new Choice();
fond.addItem("Negru");
fond.addItem("Verde");
fond.addItem("Albastru");
fond.addItem("Alb");
fond.select(0);
IL itemListener = new IL();
sel.addItemListener(itemListener);
fond.addItemListener(itemListener);
lista.addItemListener(itemListener);
selPanel.add(label1);
selPanel.add(sel);
selPanel.add(label2);
selPanel.add(lista);
selPanel.add(label3);
selPanel.add(fond);
selPanel.setBackground(Color.LIGHT_GRAY);
canvas = new MyCanvas();
add("West",selPanel);
add("Center",canvas);
addWindowListener(new WA());
setSize(400,300);
setVisible(true);
class WA extends WindowAdapter{
public void windowClosing(WindowEvent e){
System.exit(0);
class IL implements ItemListener{
public void itemStateChanged(ItemEvent event){
canvas.repaint();
Color genCuloare(String culoare){
Color color;
if (culoare.equals("Negru")) color = Color.black;
else if (culoare.equals("Verde")) color = Color.green;
else if (culoare.equals("Albastru")) color = Color.blue;
else if (culoare.equals("Alb")) color = Color.white;
else color = Color.black;
return color;
class MyCanvas extends Canvas{
public void paint(Graphics g){
String culoare = sel.getSelectedItem();
Color color = genCuloare(culoare);
g.setColor(color);
color = genCuloare(fond.getSelectedItem());
setBackground(color);
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int cx = dim.width/2;
int cy = dim.height/2;
String figura = lista.getSelectedItem();
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else if (figura.equals("Dreptunghi"))
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ML listener = new ML();
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public class ML implements MouseMotionListener{
@Override
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// TODO Auto-generated method stub
@Override
public void mouseMoved(MouseEvent arg0) {
// TODO Auto-generated method stub
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Desenare d = new Desenare("Desenare 2D");
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Thanks,
PaulWhen you post a code, use code tags for propere formatting. Click CODE icon on the taskbar for generating code tag pair you need.
In order to do dragging the figure on the canvas or panel, you should use advanced Java 2D APIs, including Shape and its descendants. Example shown below might help, but beware, this version does not remember previous drag result for a figure over multiple lista Choice selection. Previous drag result is reset for the next selection of the same figure.
If you want to prevent flickering on the screen while dragging, use javax.swing and its components. If you have to use AWT, draw the figure into an Image or BufferedImage of full panel size and call g2.drawImage() in the paint() method.
import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
import java.awt.geom.*;
import javax.swing.event.*;
public class Desenare extends Frame{
private Panel selPanel;
private Choice sel;
private Choice fond;
private Choice lista;
private MyCanvas canvas;
Color fcolor, bcolor;
enum Fig{LINE, RECT, CIRCLE};
Fig fig;
int xL0, yL0, xL1, yL1;
int xR0, yR0, xR1, yR1;
int xC0, yC0, xC1, yC1;
int dxL, dyL, dxR, dyR, dxC, dyC;
Shape shape;
public Desenare(String titlu){
super(titlu);
selPanel = new Panel(new GridLayout(6,1));
fcolor = bcolor = Color.white;
dxL = dyL = dxR = dyR = dxC = dyC = 0;
Label label1 = new Label("Culoare");
sel = new Choice();
sel.addItem("Alb");
sel.addItem("Albastru");
sel.addItem("Verde");
sel.addItem("Negru");
sel.select(0);
Label label2 = new Label("Figura");
lista = new Choice();
lista.addItem("Dreptunghi");
lista.addItem("Linie");
lista.addItem("Cerc");
lista.select(0);
Label label3 = new Label("Culoare Fond");
fond = new Choice();
fond.addItem("Alb");
fond.addItem("Albastru");
fond.addItem("Verde");
fond.addItem("Negru");
fond.select(0);
IL itemListener = new IL();
sel.addItemListener(itemListener);
fond.addItemListener(itemListener);
lista.addItemListener(itemListener);
selPanel.add(label1);
selPanel.add(sel);
selPanel.add(label2);
selPanel.add(lista);
selPanel.add(label3);
selPanel.add(fond);
selPanel.setBackground(Color.LIGHT_GRAY);
canvas = new MyCanvas();
add(selPanel, BorderLayout.WEST);
add(canvas, BorderLayout.CENTER);
addWindowListener(new WA());
setSize(400, 300);
setVisible(true);
class WA extends WindowAdapter{
public void windowClosing(WindowEvent e){
System.exit(0);
class IL implements ItemListener{
public void itemStateChanged(ItemEvent event){
Object o = event.getSource();
if (o == sel){
String culoare = sel.getSelectedItem();
fcolor = genCuloare(culoare);
canvas.repaint();
else if (o == fond){
bcolor = genCuloare(fond.getSelectedItem());
canvas.setBackground(bcolor);
else if (o == lista){
String figura = lista.getSelectedItem();
if (figura.equals("Linie")){
fig = Fig.LINE;
else if (figura.equals("Dreptunghi")){
fig = Fig.RECT;
else if (figura.equals("Cerc")){
fig = Fig.CIRCLE;
shape = prepareShape(fig);
canvas.repaint();
Shape prepareShape(Fig fig){
Shape shape = null;
if (fig == Fig.LINE){
shape = new Line2D.Float(xL0, yL0, xL1, yL1);
else if (fig == Fig.RECT){
shape = new Rectangle2D.Float(xR0, yR0, xR1, yR1);
else if (fig == Fig.CIRCLE){
shape = new Ellipse2D.Float(xC0, yC0, xC1, yC1);
return shape;
Shape prepareShapeDrag(Fig fig){
Shape shape = null;
if (fig == Fig.LINE){
shape = new Line2D.Float(xL0 + dxL, yL0 + dyL, xL1 + dxL, yL1 + dyL);
else if (fig == Fig.RECT){
shape = new Rectangle2D.Float(xR0 + dxR, yR0 + dyR, xR1, yR1);
else if (fig == Fig.CIRCLE){
shape = new Ellipse2D.Float(xC0 + dxC, yC0 + dyC, xC1, yC1);
return shape;
Color genCuloare(String culoare){
Color color;
if (culoare.equals("Negru")){
color = Color.black;
else if (culoare.equals("Verde")){
color = Color.green;
else if (culoare.equals("Albastru")){
color = Color.blue;
else if (culoare.equals("Alb")){
color = Color.white;
else{
color = Color.black;
return color;
class MyCanvas extends Canvas{
public MyCanvas(){
setBackground(Color.white);
ML ml = new ML();
addMouseListener(ml);
addMouseMotionListener(ml);
public void paint(Graphics g){
Graphics2D g2 = (Graphics2D)g;
setCoords();
g2.setPaint(fcolor);
if (shape != null){
g2.draw(shape);
g2.fill(shape);
void setCoords(){
int w = getWidth();
int h = getHeight();
xL0 = w / 4;
yL0 = h / 4;
xL1 = xL0 * 3;
yL1 = yL0 * 3;
xC0 = xR0 = xL0;
yC0 = yR0 = yL0;
xC1 = xR1 = w / 2;
yC1 = yR1 = h / 2;
public class ML extends MouseInputAdapter{
Shape s = null;
Point p0 = null;
Point p1 = null;
@Override
public void mousePressed(MouseEvent e) {
double dist = 0.0;
p0 = p1 = e.getPoint();
if (shape instanceof Line2D){
dist = ((Line2D)shape).ptSegDist(p0);
if (dist < 2){
s = shape;
else{
s = null;
else{
if (shape.contains(p0)){
s = shape;
else{
s = null;
@Override
public void mouseDragged(MouseEvent e) {
int dx, dy;
if (s != null){
p0 = p1;
p1 = e.getPoint();
dx = p1.x - p0.x;
dy = p1.y - p0.y;
if (s instanceof Line2D){
dxL += dx;
dyL += dy;
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dxR += dx;
dyR += dy;
else if (s instanceof Ellipse2D){
dxC += dx;
dyC += dy;
shape = Desenare.this.prepareShapeDrag(fig);
canvas.repaint();
public static void main(String []args){
Desenare d = new Desenare("Desenare 2D with Dragging support");
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Please help if you can! I'm really freaked out right now.
Thank you.
And yes, I did authorize my computer for those things I purchased, still doesn't work.
I'm using a iphone 3Gs version 3.1.2 and iPod 160GB.
I've never had this problem before until I first purchased today.
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*it only lets me add songs via playlists.*
Check your update settings. Connect your iPod and click on it's icon in the iTunes source list (the narrow pane on the left). This will bring up the preferences tabs in the main pane on the right. The first tab you'll see is Summary, look for "manually manage songs and videos", if there is a check mark there then the iPod is set to update manually and you have to drag songs from the iTunes library to the iPod to load them on. If you want to update automatically you need to remove the check mark from there (I would also remove the "enable disk use" check mark unless you want to use the iPod as a removable storage device) and click the Apply button in the right hand corner:
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Click on the chevron (the little triangle) to the left of the iPod icon This will display the various icons for the iPod itself, Music, Movies, TV Shows and Playlists. Click on Music and you'll see the traditional song list. -
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