Drag and drop type?

Getting feedback for a drop operation depends on the kinds of Transfer you support. Make sure to support LocalSelectionTransfer and URIReferenceTransfer. Those are commonly used in RTC to contain a reference (or the actual selection) of work items. You can find an example in com.ibm.team.fulltext.ide.ui.internal.search.ArtifactSearchResultPage.hookDropSupport().

Ben
Foundation & Work Item

Great thanks for the help!

Sorry, really dumb question - when you say there is an example in com.ibm.team.fulltext.ide.ui.internal.search.ArtifactSearchResultPage.hookDropSupport

what source code are you referring to and where do I get it?

Thanks!

Eric.

I couldn't find any references to URIReferenceTransfer, can you tell me what the fully qualified name of that class is?

Thanks!

Eric.

Hmm, well I've been able to find a reference to that class and I added it. I didn't realize that the RTC source code was available for download as well - that is incredibly useful.

Unfortunately my drop event still won't fire. I wasn't able to find the exact code that was suggested, but I did find some of the chat code which I believe does the same thing. I pretty much copied the following:

final DropTarget target= new DropTarget(fViewTabFolder, DND.DROP_LINK | DND.DROP_DEFAULT);
target.setTransfer(new Transfer[] { URIReferenceTransfer.getInstance()});
target.addDropListener(new ChatMeetingDropTargetListener());

But my control does not appear to accept the drop. Am I missing anything?

Thanks!

Eric.

Maybe a better example for you is the com.ibm.team.workitem.rcp.ui.internal.activation.ActiveWorkItemControl.addDropSupport(Control) because it works on Work Items.

A simple example where I get a Link-Feedback when dragging a Work Item over my Table is this code:

Table t= new Table(parent, SWT.BORDER);
final DropTarget target= new DropTarget(t, DND.DROP_LINK);
target.setTransfer(new Transfer[] { LocalSelectionTransfer.getTransfer() });
target.addDropListener(new DropTargetAdapter() {

@Override
public void dragEnter(final DropTargetEvent event) {
validateDrop(event);
}

@Override
public void dragOperationChanged(final DropTargetEvent event) {
validateDrop(event);
}

@Override
public void drop(final DropTargetEvent event) {
performDrop(event);
}

@Override
public void dropAccept(final DropTargetEvent event) {
validateDrop(event);
}

private void performDrop(final DropTargetEvent event) {
event.detail= DND.DROP_LINK;
}

private void validateDrop(final DropTargetEvent event) {
event.detail= DND.DROP_LINK;
}
});

Ben

That worked!!! Thanks for your help, I really appreciate it!

I'm really amazed at how relatively easy it is to extend Eclipse/RTC. This was my first plug-in for Eclipse and all things considered it has been a really pleasant experience.

Thanks!

Eric.

Great to hear that, enjoy :)