Drag and drop with an image

Question

I need to create a drag and drop system in swing where an image of the thing being dragged is attached to the cursor during the drag. In theory this is achieveable with

public Icon TransferHandler.getVisualRepresentation(Transferable t)

but there appears to be a long standing bug (here) that means this method is never called. I know I can do it by implementing my own DnD system with DragSource etc., but does anyone know of an easier workround that will get me what I need?

Answer 1

The method TransferHandler.getVisualRepresentation wasn't supported in java 1.4, I'm not sure if or when it was fixed. To test whether it works in a current version you could adapt this example