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If you have need to copy text to clipboard and paste text from clipboard but you don't know how, here is a simple Class to help you. Just create new instance and use methods "copyTextToClipboard("some text")" and "copyTextFromClipboard()".
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* TEXTCLIPBOARD CLASS
*
* @author Stanislav Zorjan
* @copyright (c)Copyright 2007 - 2008 - Stanislav Zorjan newcomponents@neobee.net
*
* Text clipboard class copies text from and to clipboard
*/
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/*change package name to Your package name*/
package draggwindow;
import java.awt.datatransfer.Transferable;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.awt.datatransfer.Clipboard;
import java.awt.datatransfer.StringSelection;
import java.awt.datatransfer.ClipboardOwner;
import java.awt.datatransfer.UnsupportedFlavorException;
import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.datatransfer.DataFlavor;
public class TextClipboard implements ClipboardOwner {
private SecurityManager securityManager = System.getSecurityManager();
private Toolkit toolkit = Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit();
private StringSelection stringSelection;
private Clipboard clipboard;
private String result;
private Transferable contents;
public void copyTextToClipboard(String text) {
if (this.securityManager != null) {
try {
this.securityManager.checkSystemClipboardAccess();
} catch (Exception e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
this.stringSelection = new StringSelection(text);
this.clipboard = toolkit.getSystemClipboard();
this.clipboard.setContents(stringSelection, this);
}
public String copyTextFromClipboard() {
this.result = "";
this.clipboard = this.toolkit.getSystemClipboard();
this.contents = this.clipboard.getContents(null);
boolean hasTransferableText =(this.contents != null) && this.contents.isDataFlavorSupported(DataFlavor.stringFlavor);
if ( hasTransferableText ) {
try {
this.result = (String)this.contents.getTransferData(DataFlavor.stringFlavor);
} catch (UnsupportedFlavorException ex){
System.out.println(ex);
ex.printStackTrace();
} catch (IOException ex) {
System.out.println(ex);
ex.printStackTrace();
}
}
return result;
}
public void lostOwnership(Clipboard clip, Transferable tr) {
System.out.println("Lost Clipboard Ownership?!?");
}
}