API proposal: drag view

[steve.x.northover at oracle.com]

Pavel, I had assumed that you knew this.  The drag image is something 
that FX sets when it starts a drag, not something it can get when 
another application starts a drag.

Steve

On 16/01/2013 8:28 AM, Alexey Utkin wrote:
> On 16.01.2013 16:33, Pavel Safrata wrote:
>> Hi Alexey,
>> thanks for your input.
>>
>> On 16.1.2013 9:40, Alexey Utkin wrote:
>>> I would like specialty emphasize here that image-for-drag is the 
>>> same sort of transfer data
>>> as the other parts (means that data is accessible for reading on the 
>>> target side).
>>
>> Can you confirm it is always the case? If the drag starts in a native 
>> application and continues to FX application, are the data still 
>> accessible? On all systems?
> I can say that image-for-drag is the same sort of transfer data as the 
> other part in the most of cases (that is the best way for data 
> transfer between processes),
> but the structure of that data is not always disclosed by OS provider 
> for native applications. For example the MS does not open the picture 
> format, but it fixed and described in Internet by reverse engineering.
>
> In JavaFX drag target we can access to the image of pictured DnD only 
> in case of JavaFX source. That is true for any OS.
> -uta
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Pavel
>