Pasting onto the clipboard

[Hari]

In java, I know in the 1.4.2 API specification there is a Clipboard class
and a Clipboard owner class. I tried but couldn't find out how you just
paste a String onto the clipboard. Could someone show me the code I need to
copy a simple String onto the clipboard which can be used in other
mainstream applications (like Word, etc.)?

 

[Silas Snider]

In java, I know in the 1.4.2 API specification there is a Clipboard
class and a Clipboard owner class. I tried but couldn't find out how
you just paste a String onto the clipboard. Could someone show me the
code I need to copy a simple String onto the clipboard which can be
used in other mainstream applications (like Word, etc.)?

Use something like (excluding neccessary try/catch blocks)

StringSelection s = new StringSelection(myString);
Toolkit.getSystemClipboard().setContents(s,s); //guessing on the second
//parameter, but the api says that StringSelection implements
//ClipboardOwner, so I am assuming its right.

 

[Hari]

Thanks a lot,

I didn't look in the java.awt.Toolkit, sorry for bothering me. You didn't
have to type out the code, just direct me to the Toolkit class. thanks alot.
It all worked. For future reference, do you know how to put an image on the
clipboard or retreive contents from the clipboard? Thanks a lot.

 

[Silas Snider]

Thanks a lot,

I didn't look in the java.awt.Toolkit, sorry for bothering me. You
didn't have to type out the code, just direct me to the Toolkit class.
thanks alot. It all worked. For future reference, do you know how to
put an image on the clipboard or retreive contents from the clipboard?
Thanks a lot.

I believe you will have to write your own class that implements
Transferable, as there is an ImageFlavor for Transferables to use, but
there is no Transferable I can find that uses it.

 

[Tor Iver Wilhelmsen]

It all worked. For future reference, do you know how to put an image on the
clipboard or retreive contents from the clipboard? Thanks a lot.

You get the contents using getContents() on the Clipboard. This gets
you a Transferable which you can ask for data of a given "flavor".

Images are a special flavor (supported by DataFlavor.imageFlavor); if
you have an java.awt.Image object, you should be able to send it to
the Clipboard, but there doesn't seem to be any default Transferable
or ClipboardOwner classes to be used in the standard APIs. This means
it's easy to get an image FROM the clipboard in Java, but hard to PUT
one there.