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Improved Drag Gesture in Swing
I'm taking my very first step into the world of blogging, and to mark the occasion I'm announcing a very exciting bug fix to Swing drag and drop ... Until very recently, the sixth highest vote getter on Sun's list of Top 25 Bugs was bug 4521075 with a total of 239 votes. This bug reports that the recognition of a drag gesture in Swing is unlike what is typically expected by users. More specifically, it complains that Swing requires an item to first be selected with one mouse click, before pressing on it again and dragging to begin drag and drop. The much more common paradigm expected by users is that a single mouse press should be able to select the item and also begin recognition of a drag gesture ... I am extremely pleased to announce that this important bug has been fixed! In fact, it has already been released to the public in build 36 of Mustang, which you can download now. And let me top this with some even better news: This fix is also targeted to be released in update 5 of J2SE 5.0, due out in the not too distant future.