Maybe this will help? I had this old code lying around and I just added the one line of code to invoke the setDragImage() method in the ComponentHandler class. It uses the Screen Image class to create a image of the component you are moving. I didn't scale the image or anything so you get the whole component.
import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.datatransfer.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
import java.beans.*;
import javax.swing.*;
import javax.swing.border.*;
import javax.swing.plaf.*;
import javax.swing.text.*;
import java.io.*;
public class DragComponent extends JPanel
{
// public final static DataFlavor COMPONENT_FLAVOR = new DataFlavor(Component[].class, "Component Array");
public static DataFlavor COMPONENT_FLAVOR;
public DragComponent()
{
try
{
COMPONENT_FLAVOR = new DataFlavor(DataFlavor.javaJVMLocalObjectMimeType + ";class=\"" + Component[].class.getName() + "\"");
}
catch(Exception e)
{
System.out.println(e);
}
setLayout(null);
setTransferHandler( new PanelHandler() );
MouseListener listener = new MouseAdapter()
{
@Override
public void mousePressed(MouseEvent e)
{
JComponent c = (JComponent) e.getSource();
TransferHandler handler = c.getTransferHandler();
handler.exportAsDrag(c, e, TransferHandler.MOVE);
}
};
TransferHandler handler = new ComponentHandler();
for (int i = 0; i < 5; i++)
{
JLabel label = new JLabel("Label " + i);
label.setSize( label.getPreferredSize() );
label.setLocation(30 * (i+1), 30 * (i+1));
label.addMouseListener( listener );
label.setTransferHandler( handler );
add( label );
}
JPanel panel = new JPanel();
panel.add( new JLabel("one") );
panel.add( new JButton("two") );
panel.setLocation(0, 180);
panel.setSize( panel.getPreferredSize() );
panel.addMouseListener( listener );
panel.setTransferHandler( handler );
add(panel);
}
private static void createAndShowUI()
{
DragComponent north = new DragComponent();
north.setBackground(Color.RED);
north.setPreferredSize( new Dimension(200, 200) );
DragComponent south = new DragComponent();
south.setBackground(Color.YELLOW);
south.setPreferredSize( new Dimension(200, 200) );
JFrame frame = new JFrame("DragComponent");
frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
frame.add(north, BorderLayout.NORTH);
frame.add(south, BorderLayout.SOUTH);
frame.pack();
frame.setLocationByPlatform( true );
frame.setVisible( true );
}
public static void main(String[] args)
{
EventQueue.invokeLater(new Runnable()
{
public void run()
{
createAndShowUI();
}
});
}
}
class ComponentHandler extends TransferHandler
{
@Override
public int getSourceActions(JComponent c)
{
setDragImage( ScreenImage.createImage(c) );
return MOVE;
}
@Override
public Transferable createTransferable(final JComponent c)
{
return new Transferable()
{
@Override
public Object getTransferData(DataFlavor flavor)
{
Component[] components = new Component[1];
components[0] = c;
return components;
}
@Override
public DataFlavor[] getTransferDataFlavors()
{
DataFlavor[] flavors = new DataFlavor[1];
flavors[0] = DragComponent.COMPONENT_FLAVOR;
return flavors;
}
@Override
public boolean isDataFlavorSupported(DataFlavor flavor)
{
return flavor.equals(DragComponent.COMPONENT_FLAVOR);
}
};
}
@Override
public void exportDone(JComponent c, Transferable t, int action)
{
System.out.println(c.getBounds());
}
}
class PanelHandler extends TransferHandler
{
@Override
public boolean canImport(TransferSupport support)
{
if (!support.isDrop())
{
return false;
}
boolean canImport = support.isDataFlavorSupported(DragComponent.COMPONENT_FLAVOR);
return canImport;
}
@Override
public boolean importData(TransferSupport support)
{
if (!canImport(support))
{
return false;
}
Component[] components;
try
{
components = (Component[])support.getTransferable().getTransferData(DragComponent.COMPONENT_FLAVOR);
}
catch (Exception e)
{
e.printStackTrace();
return false;
}
Component component = components[0];
System.out.println(component.getClass());
Container container = (Container)support.getComponent();
container.add(component);
// container.revalidate();
// container.repaint();
container.getParent().revalidate();
container.getParent().repaint();
// JLabel label = (JLabel)component;
DropLocation location = support.getDropLocation();
// System.out.println(label.getText() + " + " + location.getDropPoint());
component.setLocation( location.getDropPoint() );
return true;
}
}