API proposal: drag view

[Pavel Safrata]

I've suggested this from the very beginning, just wanted to be sure. So, 
what will the getter return when another application starts the drag? 
That's the issue I'm talking about all the time..
Thanks,
Pavel

On 16.1.2013 19:39, steve.x.northover at oracle.com wrote:
> 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
>>