Overriding default Copy behaviour of StyledEditorKit

Question

hi,
just executing the default behaviour of "copy" (i.e. the Action associated with the string DefaultEditorKit.copyAction), inherited from DefaultEditorKit, turns Styled text into plain text.
So I need to override the behaviour of this action in StyledEditorKit... I find the way into this must be use of the nested class of DefaultEditorKit, i.e. class DefaultEditorKit.CopyAction.
But can someone provide a code example on how to do the override... ? Have tried extending a CopyAction class in a StyledEditorKit constructor... etc.
Thanks
Mike

Answer 1

By the way I don't read code that has been posted
without the "Code Formatting Tags, found in the
"Formatting Tips" link.great, much better:
System.out.println();
Action doNothing = new AbstractAction() {
    public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
        //do nothing
ActionMap actionMap = getActionMap();
for( InputMap inputMap = getInputMap(); inputMap != null; inputMap = inputMap.getParent() ){
    System.out.println( "input/action maps level..." );
    KeyStroke ctrlC = KeyStroke.getKeyStroke( KeyEvent.VK_C, Event.CTRL_MASK );
    String nm = (String)inputMap.get( ctrlC );
    if( nm != null ){
        System.out.println( "inputMap entry found for Ctrl-C: " + nm );
        inputMap.put( ctrlC, "doNothing");
        if( actionMap != null )
            actionMap.put( "doNothing", doNothing);
        nm = (String)inputMap.get( ctrlC );
        System.out.println( "now: inputMap entry " + nm + " present" );
        if( actionMap != null )
            actionMap = actionMap.getParent();
        if( actionMap == null && inputMap.getParent() != null )
                System.out.println( "hmm... actionMap parent null and inputMap parent non-null!!" );
Well, you should not be trying to get rid of the
deault Action.
You are adding your own custom Action, so you just
need to create you Acton and add the Action to the
ActionMap with the correct KeyStroke. that's what I do in the above code... despite replacing the "copy-to-clipboard" with doNothing in all 3 generations of ActionMap, the Action for "copy-to-clipboard" still appears to be present... and to de-style text automatically