Using the Clipboard

Hi all
Ive noticed the clipboard features in java but from some of the examples ive been seeing it doesnt seem to be that versatile
examples ive seen are such things like copy text from one text box to another using the clipboard but it only does this by doing a getText() on the textbox and putting that in the clipboard then doing a setText() on the other textbox from the clipboard
but what i want to be able to do is any selected text when copy is clicked, it is added to the clip board (whether the selectted text is in a text box or in a textpane) then paste that text to where ever the cursor is (be it in a text box or cursor)
is there a simple way of doing this or do i have to basically capture every focus event on the text boxes and textpane and then let the clipboard know i am copying and pasting from the currently focused field?

Swing related questions should be posted in the Swing forum.
All text components support the standard KeyStrokes:
Ctrl-C, Ctrl-X, Ctrl-V
You can also add menu items or toolbar buttons to perfrom these Actions. See the Swing tutorial on "Text Component Features":
http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/uiswing/components/generaltext.html

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Wow, this site is truly terrible.
Anyway.
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TomMettam wrote:
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Perhaps this approach will give you the answer. I wrote a VI that uses the Win32 API directly. It calls OpenClipboard with the calling VI's window handle, then calls GetClipboard with the GW_TEXT constant to get a memory block handle. I lock the memory block with GlobalLock so other applications can't mess with it. I next call lstrcopynA , initializing a arg1 as a C String with 256 bytes and using the memory block handle as arg2, with the length of arg1 minus one as arg3. Your clipboard text is in the string output. Now call GlobalUnlock and CloseClipboard and you're done!
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getclipboarddata.llb ‏168 KB

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Marilee

Hi,
The Clipboard uses the Web Agent to connect
to the database, so it should be possible to
track this down just using the web agent.
The web agent itself is just a regular OCI
client application - it doesn't do anything
special when it comes to connecting to the
database, it just uses the SERVICE attribute
in the WSC.CFG file as a SQL*Net TNS service
name in TNSNAMES.ORA. The first thing to try
is to test the database agent being used by
the clipboard from a browser. Eg:
[URL=http://host/intermedia/<dbagent-NAME>/~test]http://host/intermedia/<dbagent-NAME>/~test[/URL] That should result in the same error message
being logged by the listener and should also
result in an error message being displayed
on the browser window.
To verify that the Web Agent is reading the
correct TNSNAMES.ORA, you can create another
database agent and include the entire
connection string as the service name instead
of using a TNS service name. This is probably
best done by editing WSC.CFG, creating a new
database agent by copying the existing one
and replacing the service name with the
connect string from TNSNAMES.ORA, making sure
the string is all on 1 line. For example:
[database_agent.sample-test]
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database_password = tiger
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Dear community,
this is my first posting within the adobe forums, please be gentle
So, first things first. We recently switched from PowerPC PowerMac infrastructure to much more powerful Windows machines (i.e. i7 3.4GHz, 16GB Ram, 128GB SSD and decent Motherboards). Now one very annoying bug occurs (and it only occurs on windows machines).
System Information
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Lets assume we have an InDesign-Document with the following specifications:
Around 8mb size
Various Layers with images on network storages (mixed, eps and tif documents)
one of it is a relatively large tiff file (178mb) (300dpi, about 9.200x12.000px, opens normally in photoshop)
When I copy all elements of one page into the clipboard, it renders the pdf for a while. If I then try to start a new document in Photoshop, it won't let me use the clipboard, even though the document is in the clipboard (new document in indesign -> paste -> ét voila).
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What I've tried so far:
it's not the system itself, the error occurs on every machine, no matter if real computer or just a virtual machine with only windows, indesign and photoshop
Modified registry values for Photoshop (inserted AlwaysImportClipboard and AlwaysImportClipboard64 in HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Adobe\Photoshop\55.0\) - no change here.
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I have just that !

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2.6MB                   4.9 sec
3.8MB                   17.2 sec
14MB                    253.3 sec
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This freeze also occurs when shortcuts to menu items (such as Ctrl + L) are used when large amounts of data are on the clip board.
Thus far this has been 100% repeatable and I have not been able to find a way around it. I also haven't found anything else similar on the forums or on the web. It appears to be a GUI freeze with Labview still running in the background, which is also odd.
My work-arounds at this point are either to not use the clipboard (bad), programatically clear the clipboard several times each second (worse) or remove all custom menu functionality and replace those functions with onscreen controls. So, for now, I'm removing custom menu items because my users need the clipboard and I can't have massive delays making my data acquisition code look crashed.
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Attachments:
Menu_Clipboard_Lv2011.vi ‏17 KB

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CIT Engineering Netherlands
a division of Test & Measurement Solutions

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Using a data set observer, check for
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>
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Hi !
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