Drag and drop in AIR

Use the classes in the Adobe® AIR™ drag-and-drop API to support user-interface drag-and-drop gestures. A gesture in this sense is an action by the user, mediated by both the operating system and your application, expressing an intent to copy, move, or link information. A drag-out gesture occurs when the user drags an object out of a component or application. A drag-in gesture occurs when the user drags in an object from outside a component or application.

With the drag-and-drop API, you can allow a user to drag data between applications and between components within an application. Supported transfer formats include:

• Bitmaps

• Files

• HTML-formatted text

• Text

• Rich Text Format data

• URLs

• File promises

• Serialized objects

• Object references (only valid within the originating application)

• Basics of drag and drop in AIR

• Supporting the drag-out gesture

• Supporting the drag-in gesture

• Drag and drop in HTML

• Dragging data out of an HTML element

• Dragging data into an HTML element

• Example: Overriding the default HTML drag-in behavior

• Handling file drops in non-application HTML sandboxes

• Dropping file promises