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From: Jeff Higgins <jeff@invalid.invalid>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer
Subject: Re: JEditorPane question
Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2014 00:46:08 -0500
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On 12/09/2014 10:41 PM, Jeff Higgins wrote:
> Huh.
> Contents disappear from the system (OS)
> clipboard when I exit the application. :(
>
Damn.
SWT gets this simple thing right!
Close the Display and my selection is
still in the system clipboard.

import org.eclipse.swt.SWT;
import org.eclipse.swt.dnd.Clipboard;
import org.eclipse.swt.dnd.RTFTransfer;
import org.eclipse.swt.dnd.TextTransfer;
import org.eclipse.swt.dnd.Transfer;
import org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Button;
import org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display;
import org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Event;
import org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Listener;
import org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Shell;
import org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Text;

public class bb {
   public static void main(String[] args) {
     Display display = new Display();
     final Clipboard cb = new Clipboard(display);
     Shell shell = new Shell(display);
     final Text text = new Text(shell, SWT.BORDER | SWT.MULTI);
     text.setBounds(10, 10, 300, 300);
     Button button = new Button(shell, SWT.PUSH);
     button.setText("Copy");
     button.setBounds(320, 10, 100, 40);
     button.addListener(SWT.Selection, new Listener() {
       public void handleEvent(Event e) {
         String textData = text.getSelectionText();
         if (textData == null)
           return;
         // to show the rtf formatting, make the text bold and italic
         String rtfData = "{\\rtf1\\b\\i " + textData + "}";
         TextTransfer textTransfer = TextTransfer.getInstance();
         RTFTransfer rtfTransfer = RTFTransfer.getInstance();
         Transfer[] types = new Transfer[] { textTransfer, rtfTransfer };
         cb.setContents(new Object[] { textData, rtfData }, types);
       }
     });
     button = new Button(shell, SWT.PUSH);
     button.setText("Paste");
     button.setBounds(320, 60, 100, 40);
     button.addListener(SWT.Selection, new Listener() {
       public void handleEvent(Event e) {
         TextTransfer transfer = TextTransfer.getInstance();
         String data = (String) cb.getContents(transfer);
         if (data == null)
           return;
         text.insert(data);
       }
     });
     shell.open();
     while (!shell.isDisposed()) {
       if (!display.readAndDispatch())
         display.sleep();

     }
     cb.dispose();
     display.dispose();
   }
}