at this stage, sDrop works only in one direction. you can drag things into your processing sketch but not out of the sketch yet. generally this is possible and will be future work. regarding the table, you would be the one to keep track of what you drag into your sketch, meaning your programming skills are required here.
to parse files or folders from a drop event, you can get started with the DropFilesAndFolders example that comes with the zip. hope this helps,
best,
andreas

not sure. can you post the source code, if not too long. otherwise send a private message and i take a look at it.

hi andres, i dont have a linux box handy so i prepared the following code. from a DropEvent you can extract awt's DropTargetDropEvent that contains all the info about the elements dropped into a frame.
find below the code i use in sDrop as well as an additional code block to extract the filelist from a drop event which i hope works for linux (see comments in the code). if so could you let me know, then i will make changes accordingly.
best,
andi


Code:

import sojamo.drop.*;
import java.awt.dnd.DropTargetDropEvent;
import java.awt.datatransfer.Transferable;
import java.awt.datatransfer.DataFlavor;


SDrop drop;
boolean DEBUG;

void setup() {
  size(400,400);
  frameRate(30);
  drop = new SDrop(this);
  DEBUG = false;
}


void draw() {}


void dropEvent(DropEvent theDropEvent) {
  
  DropTargetDropEvent event = theDropEvent.dropTargetDropEvent();
  Transferable transferable = event.getTransferable();
  DataFlavor[] flavors = transferable.getTransferDataFlavors();
  
  for (int i = 0; i < flavors.length; i++) {
    DataFlavor d = flavors[i];
    if(DEBUG) {
	System.out.println("\t\tMIME " + d.getMimeType());
	System.out.println("\t\tfilelist ? " + d.isFlavorJavaFileListType());
    }
    
    // does the following block work with linux? 
    if(d.isFlavorJavaFileListType()==true) {
	try {
	println(transferable.getTransferData(d));
	java.util.List fileList = (java.util.List) transferable.getTransferData(d);
	  Iterator iterator = fileList.iterator();
	  while (iterator.hasNext()) {
	    File f = (File) iterator.next();
	    println("we got a file, even on linux? "+f);
	  }
	} catch(Exception e) {
	}
    }
    
    
    
    // the following block is used by sDrop. 
    // as reported, it has problems with linux but works
    // fine with windows and mac.
    try {
	if (d.equals(DataFlavor.javaFileListFlavor)) {
	  java.util.List fileList = (java.util.List) transferable.getTransferData(d);
	  Iterator iterator = fileList.iterator();
	  while (iterator.hasNext()) {
	    File f = (File) iterator.next();
	    println("we got a file. "+f);
	  }
	}
    } 
    catch (Exception e) {
	System.out.println("Error: " + e + "\n");
    }
  }
  
}
 

Tested this:

Code:

void dropEvent(DropEvent theDropEvent) 
{
   println("Drop event");

  DropTargetDropEvent event = theDropEvent.dropTargetDropEvent();
  println(event); 

  Transferable transferable = event.getTransferable();
  println(transferable);

  DataFlavor[] flavors = transferable.getTransferDataFlavors();
  println(flavors);
}
 

and println(event); gives null.

However, I was able to make it work when I realized that theDropEvent.toString() actually returns something, which is the name of the file preceded by "file://", so for instance if the file I'm dragging and dropping is "/usr/bin/bash", then theDropEvent.toString() returns "file:///usr/bin/bash". If the item I'm dragging is a directory, the prefix is still "file://".

What I'm using is ubuntu 7.10 and processing 0135.

Sure, no problem.