Re: copy paste

From:
Daniele Futtorovic <da.futt.news@laposte-dot-net.invalid>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.gui
Date:
Tue, 01 Mar 2011 19:02:45 +0100
Message-ID:
<ikjcc5$jsm$1@news.eternal-september.org>
On 01/03/2011 10:42, Roedy Green allegedly wrote:

On Mon, 28 Feb 2011 21:28:38 +0100, Daniele Futtorovic
<da.futt.news@laposte-dot-net.invalid> wrote, quoted or indirectly
quoted someone who said :

You sure about that? I wouldn't be surprised if it weren't separate.

see
http://wush.net/svn/mindprod/com/mindprod/common11/ClipboardPoker.java

You can peek and poke the clipboard in AWT or Swing completely
independently of a JTextArea or JTextField.

The ctrl-C ctrl-V stuff happens without any code. It lets people
copy/paste text fragments to JTextAreas and JTextFields SO LONG AS
they are running as applications, not JApplets.


I've had a look at the copy/paste in JTextComponent. It eventually leads
to this method in javax.swing.TransferHandler:

         private Clipboard getClipboard(JComponent c) {
        if (SwingUtilities2.canAccessSystemClipboard()) {
        return c.getToolkit().getSystemClipboard();
        }
        Clipboard clipboard = (Clipboard)sun.awt.AppContext.getAppContext().
        get(SandboxClipboardKey);
        if (clipboard == null) {
        clipboard = new Clipboard("Sandboxed Component Clipboard");
        sun.awt.AppContext.getAppContext().put(SandboxClipboardKey,
                               clipboard);
        }
        return clipboard;
    }

When you say you can't cut'n paste, do you mean within the Applet or
from the Applet to the outside and vice-versa?

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