[news.eclipse.platform.swt] Re: SWT vs SWING/AWT Drag and drop

[duongn@xxxxxxxxxx (Duong Nguyen)]

Hi Sheldon,

That's great detective work. I thought it was just the mime type. 
Thanks for posting back.

Duong

> =====================================
> Solution:
> =====================================
> At run time, I tried calling:
> >        int maxSize = 128;
> >        TCHAR buffer = new TCHAR(0, maxSize);
> >        int size = COM.GetClipboardFormatName(49948, buffer, maxSize);
> >        System.out.println("size=" + size + ", buffer= " + buffer);

> (where 49948 is the ID that was passed in the transferData DnD object).

> Out comes...
> size=107, buffer= JAVA_DATAFLAVOR:application/x-java-serialized-object; 
> class=com.mydomain.CustomClass

> ....!!!  It's the DataFlavor generated MIME type String, with a prefix!

> So, I changed my SWT Transfer:

> > public final CustomTransfer extends ByteArrayTransfer{  
> >     private static final String TYPE_NAME = "JAVA_DATAFLAVOR:" + 
> >                                         customFlavor .getMimeType();
> >     private static final int TYPE_ID = registerType (TYPE_NAME );
> >
> >     protected int[] getTypeIds() {
> >        return new int[] { TYPE_ID };
> >     }
> > }