Use the classes in the 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, in this case, 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
• URLs
• Serialized objects
• Object references (only valid within the originating application)

Contents

• Drag and drop basics
• Supporting the drag-out gesture
• Supporting the drag-in gesture
• HTML Drag and drop

Quick Starts (Adobe AIR Developer Center)

• Supporting drag-and drop and copy-and-paste in an AIR application using ActionScript

Language Reference

• NativeDragManager
• NativeDragOptions
• Clipboard
• NativeDragEvent

More Information

• Adobe AIR Developer Center for Flex (search for 'AIR drag and drop')