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Todd Volkert commented on PIVOT-329:
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It's worth noting that technically, this is a JRE issue, not a Pivot issue.
This issue exists for all X11 environments and has been around for a very long
time. Note http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=4899516, which
commented in 2003 that it would be good if the JRE could translate between
text/uri-list and javaFileListFlavor. In the meantime, Sun's official stance
is that applications (or in our case, the framework) should export a
text/uri-list flavor to be fully platform independent. Given some recent
traction in https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/show_bug.cgi?id=100041, it looks like
this *might* be addressed in Java 7. However, in the meantime, I believe we
should provide the X11-compatible flavor as well as the java file list flavor.
> Native file drag & drop doesn't work in Linux
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> Key: PIVOT-329
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PIVOT-329
> Project: Pivot
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: wtk
> Affects Versions: 1.3
> Reporter: Todd Volkert
> Assignee: Todd Volkert
> Fix For: 1.4
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>
> In Linux, the content type of a native file drag/drop operation is
> "text/uri-list" (with multiple representation classes available).
> getTransferData() effectively returns a list of strings from which URI
> instances can be constructed. org.apache.pivot.wtk.RemoteManifest and
> org.apache.pivot.wtk.LocalManifestAdapter try to deal exclusively in
> DataFlavor.javaFileListFlavor, but since this flavor isn't used in Linux,
> native file drag/drop operations don't work in Pivot -- AWT and Pivot
> effectively talk past each other in this case.
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