Drag and Drop

[mick lynch]

Can you drag and drop objects with Eclipse and NetBeans like you can in VIS Studio ? More interested in Eclipse.

[Andre Uhres]

Yes we can

[Rob Spoor]

Moving to IDEs

[Jesper de Jong]

Drag and drop what kind of objects? Can you explain in more detail what you mean?

[Keith Flo]

Specifically ... In the Eclipse editor ...

neither in the Java, XML or text eidtors ... simple drag and drop of text does not work ... [maybe I missed something .. but on windows I use CTRL-C : (cut) and CTRL-X: (paste)] this is ok for a line or two but for blocks of text (say moving a method) it stinks ... IMHO

Is there's away to use drag & drop in the Eclipse text/Java editor? If Eclipse doesn't support that feature, is it planned for a future release?

[Peter Johnson]

It depends on which editor you are using. With Eclipse 3.5, drag-and-drop works with these editors:

Java editor

Ant editor

Properties file editor

It does not work with:

XML editor

JSP editor

The above lists are not exhaustive, they reflect only the editors I checked off-hand.

[Keith Flo]

Peter,

Thanks! I'll try again ... the Java editor is my main concern ...

kf