<AWT Dev> Issue with drag and drop in Java 8 on Windows (7 and 8)

[Ludovic HOCHET]

Hello Denis,
Thanks for the info.
Looking forward to it,

Ludovic


On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 2:19 PM, Denis S. Fokin <denis.fokin at oracle.com>wrote:

> Hi Ludovic,
>
> this issue should be resolved as a part of forward port ( see
> http://bugs.sun.com/view_bug.**do?bug_id=8001177<http://bugs.sun.com/view_bug.do?bug_id=8001177>
> )
>
> Thank you,
>    Denis.
>
>
>
> On 2/20/2013 2:30 AM, Ludovic HOCHET wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>> I've been investigating an issue that I am currently having on Windows
>> (7 and 8) with drag and drop in Java 8.
>> The issue I'm having is when I drop a file from Windows explorer onto
>> Netbeans the instance of Windows explorer from which I dragged the file
>> freeze until I close Netbeans.
>> I could reproduce it on the simple TopLevelTransferHandlerDemo from the
>> Java Tutorial [1].
>> After digging down the JDK8 code and comparing it to JDK7 code, I could
>> find a change in sun.awt.dnd.**SunDropTargetContextPeer.
>> Reverting the change fixed the issue.
>> Searching the Mercurial repo [2] for changes in SunDropTargetContextPeer
>> showed that the change was introduced last June [3].
>> Since it is platform dependent and a fix to another issue, I am unsure
>> at what I can do more.
>>
>>
>> [1]
>> http://docs.oracle.com/javase/**tutorial/uiswing/examples/dnd/**
>> TopLevelTransferHandlerDemoPro**ject/src/dnd/**
>> TopLevelTransferHandlerDemo.**java<http://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/uiswing/examples/dnd/TopLevelTransferHandlerDemoProject/src/dnd/TopLevelTransferHandlerDemo.java>
>> [2] http://hg.openjdk.java.net/**jdk8/jdk8/jdk/summary<http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk8/jdk8/jdk/summary>
>> [3] http://hg.openjdk.java.net/**jdk8/jdk8/jdk/rev/8326709c6315<http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk8/jdk8/jdk/rev/8326709c6315>
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>> --
>> Ludovic
>> ------------------------------**-----------
>>
>> "Les formes qui differencient les etres importent peu
>>   si leur pensees s'unissent pour batir un univers..."
>>   Yoko Tsuno (in 'Les titans' by Roger Leloup)
>>   [The shapes that differenciate beings are not important
>>   if their thoughts unite to build a universe]
>>
>
>


-- 
Ludovic
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"Les formes qui differencient les etres importent peu
 si leur pensees s'unissent pour batir un univers..."
 Yoko Tsuno (in 'Les titans' by Roger Leloup)
 [The shapes that differenciate beings are not important
 if their thoughts unite to build a universe]
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