Problems copying from PJC to system clipboard

Question

I am working on a PJC to allow for editing of large text fields (> 64K). I have most of the functionality working fine. However, I am having a problem using cut, copy, and paste.
Some details, the PJC extends VBean and includes as JTextArea. Our users want a right click menu to provide functionality for cutting, copying, pasting, and spell checking. I was able to get the spell check working using JSpell. I am not able to get the menu entries for cut, copy, and paste to work. I construct a JPopMenu with the appropriate items. When the menu is activated, if the user selects cut, the actionPerformed method executed the cut method of the JTextArea. This does cut the text from the item, however it is not added to the clipboard for use in other items, except those that have the same implementation class of the original item. If the user uses the keyboard (CTRL-X, CTRL-C, or CTRL-V) the selected data is copied to the system clipboard
Here is the method I used to create the menu items:
  private JMenuItem makeMenuItem(String label, char acceleratorKey)
    JMenuItem item = new JMenuItem(label);
    item.addActionListener(this);
    item.setMnemonic(acceleratorKey);
    item.addKeyListener(this);
    printDebugMessage("Horizontal text alignment = " + item.getHorizontalAlignment());
    item.setHorizontalAlignment(SwingConstants.LEFT);
    printDebugMessage("Horizontal text alignment = " + item.getHorizontalAlignment());
    return item;
  }Here is the actionPerformed method:
  public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent ae)
    String selection = ae.getActionCommand();
    if (selection.equals("Cut"))
      printDebugMessage("Cut selected");
      text.cut();
    else if (selection.equals("Copy"))
      printDebugMessage("Copy selected");
      text.copy();
    else if (selection.equals("Paste"))
      printDebugMessage("Paste selected");
      text.paste();
    else if (selection.equals("Spell Check"))
      printDebugMessage("Spell Check selected");
      doSpellCheck();
  }I read that jar files needed to be signed to interact with the desktop, but when I signed the jar file the results were the same.
Platform
10g AS on Solaris 10.1.2.2
Windows XP (SP2)
IE7
Sun plugin 1.5.0_11 (problem also occurs with 1.4.2_06)
Any insights would be helpful.
Thanks

Answer 1

will that create a problem?Try it and see.