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Allow drag-and-drop of applets into the widget dock for browser/desktop integration #13

Open GoogleCodeExporter opened 9 years ago

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
Idea recommended by mbien on the dev mailing list:

I have to admit I haven't looked into the code yet but would it be
possible to support JApplets as widgets? This would make it easier to
port draggable applets to WidgetFX.

A killer feature would be to allow draggable applets to be dropped
into the widget system but this is probably currently not possible to
implement since they are running in a different VM (a workaround would
be to restart them but this isn't very clean and even this would
require support from Sun devs since webstart is still closed).

very good work!

regards,

michael

Original issue reported on code.google.com by steveonjava on 31 Jul 2008 at 10:01

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
Michael,

That is a great idea.  I will have to play around with a few different options 
to see
what can work.  It would be really cool to drag the same applet instance 
straight
onto the desktop or dock with no interruption at all.  This could be a little 
tricky,
because widgetfx loads all the widgets in the same JVM for performance (a JVM 
not
shared with browser applets).  Also, I would probably need hooks into the Java
plug-in, which is not likely to happen.

Another alternative would be to allow drag-and-drop of applets onto the dock.  
This
way I could setup a widget data flavor that has all the information needed to 
add it
to the dock, and it would instantly load the applet in place.  Not quite as 
cool as
physically dragging the applet over, but it would be a very cool deployment 
option
for widgets, and feel very much like a copy operation (when I was playing 
around with
the applet/web-start integration, one usability issue I noticed was the big 
white
hole where the applet used to be...).

I've filed an issue in Google Code to track this feature:
http://code.google.com/p/widgetfx/issues/detail?id=13
(lucky 13!)

Cheers,
--Steve

Original comment by steveonjava on 31 Jul 2008 at 10:11

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
Hai, 

  Any update on this feature, This will be great. I am planning to create a web site
with multiple tools for corporate web site. We will also provide widget and I 
want
the user to just drag and drop the applet into widget bar if they are 
interested in
using those tools, eg a server monitoring tool, they will go to web page, use 
the
applet to find the servers/deployment they are interested, after that if they 
wanted
to continue watch the deployment, they can drag and drop that to the widget to 
keep
watching for server status.

Please let me know if there is any progress on this ?

Original comment by gireeshk...@gmail.com on 5 Mar 2010 at 6:45

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
We have a prototype version of this that was almost there.  I will ping Keith 
and see
if we can make some progress on this.

Original comment by steveonjava on 7 Mar 2010 at 10:31