The Java Developers Almanac 1.4


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e976. Enabling Text-Dragging on a JTextComponent

With text-dragging enabled, the user can select some text and drag the selected text to another part of the text component (or to another text component). During dragging, the text component's caret follows the cursor (but caret events are not fired). When the user releases the mouse, the selected text is deleted and inserted into the location of the caret. If the control key is pressed at the time the mouse button is released, the selected text is instead copied to the new location.
    JTextComponent textComp = new JTextArea();
    textComp.setDragEnabled(true);

 Related Examples
e968. Retrieving Text from a JTextComponent
e969. Retrieving All the Text from a JTextComponent Efficiently
e970. Modifying Text in a JTextComponent
e971. Asynchronously Reading the Contents of a Visible JTextComponent
e972. Finding Word Boundaries in a JTextComponent
e973. Retrieving the Visible Lines in a JTextComponent
e974. Using a Position in a JTextComponent
e975. Limiting the Capacity of a JTextComponent
e977. Sharing a Document Between JTextComponents
e978. Enumerating All the Views in a JTextComponent

See also: Actions and Key Bindings    Caret and Selection    Events    JEditorPane    JFormattedTextField    JTextArea    JTextField    JTextPane    Styles   


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