Troubleshooting

Programmatically Copying, Cutting, and Pasting

I want to programmatically perform copy, cut, and paste operations on text fields and text areas.

Swing's abstract JTextComponent class provides programmatic copy, cut, and paste support through its copy , cut , and paste methods. These methods are inherited by its JTextField and JTextArea subclasses. When called, each method performs the appropriate operation on the component's associated text model. However, the capability to programmatically copy, cut, and paste is not present in the AWT's TextComponent , TextField , and TextArea classes.

Transferring Nontextual Data to/from the System Clipboard

I want to transfer nontextual data (such as an image), via the system clipboard, ...

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