Name: boT120536 Date: 02/19/2001


java version "1.3.0"
Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build 1.3.0-C)
Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 1.3.0-C, mixed mode)

I've developed an applet to share links with the browser using drag & drop.
It works fine with Netscape 4.7 or Internet Explorer 4.0, but with Internet
Explorer 5.5 the drop event of the drop target isn't executed.

  To reproduce de problem, Sheetal Gupta's Drag & Drop sample code, from
http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/dnd/sheetal.html, can be used adding
a 'System.out.println("drop");' at the beggining of the drop event.

It isn't executed with that version of the explorer, and the applet only knows
when the cursor enters or exists the drop target.

I don't have any problem with Windows NT or with Drag & Drop in an applet
(I use a thread to program the drop target listener), as most of bugs talk
about, so all events are executed if I try to drop a text or a file, for
exemple, into the target (the Bug ID 4225247 covers a fixed problem of Java
1.2.1 which don't let those events to run on NT, and I use Java 1.3.0).

The problem I have is while dropping a link from Internet Explorer 5.5 into
the applet: the drop event isn't fired. But if the link comes from Internet
Explorer 4.0 or Netscape Communicator 4.7 (I have only checked this
version), all is OK.

Please, note that I use the applet inside a web page running on MS Explorer
5.5, and the problem is independet on that. It only depends on the drag
source: if it's a link form Internet Explorer 5.5 the drop event isn't
runned.

 I've also noticed that when dropping a selected text form Internet
Explorer 5.5 the drop event works. So try with a link.

Thank you.
(Review ID: 117005)
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