How to select text in javaFX?

Hello, i don't know how to select text in javaFX to do a copy and paste (for example). Does anyone know?
Thank you

You cannot select text (unless doing lot of code yourself) except in TextBox.
I shown how to do copy & paste in the thread [javafx.scene.text.Text -> how to make displayed text copyable ?|http://forums.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=5393948] (classical Java stuff).

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