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Re: Dropping files on a Swing application

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On 7/22/2016 9:24 AM, Cecil Westerhof wrote:
> I have started with a simple Swing application. In this I select a
> picture file JFileChooser. It works, but because there are more as
> 1.000 photos it is a little bothersome to select the correct photo.
> With Gwenview I can see minatures of the photos. Would it be possible
> to select a photo in Gwenview and drop it on my application? That
> would make live much easier.
>
> Of-course I would prefer a system independent way, so if someone would
> use my application on Windows it works also.

     Usenet is a medium well-suited for "targeted" questions, but it
is not a good means for wholesale instruction in large bodies of data.
Your present question is covered in the on-line Java Tutorial, as are
many of the others (perhaps *all* of the others) you have raised in
this thread.  I encourage you to take advantage of it.  The Swing
part starts at

	http://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/uiswing/index.html

... where you will find links that may interest you, like "Drag and
Drop and Data Transfer," "Laying Out Components Within a Container,"
"Concurrency in Swing," and "Custom Painting," among others.

     Stop floundering, and RTFT.

-- 
esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid
"Don't be afraid of work. Make work afraid of you." -- TLM

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Dropping files on a Swing application Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> - 2016-07-22 15:24 +0200
  Re: Dropping files on a Swing application Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2016-07-22 09:41 -0400

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