Copying Text From Applet to System Clipboard

[dabowles]

Hello All,

Can someone give me a page to view or provide me the details of the simplest way to develop an applet that will allow the copying of text in JTextAreas and JTextFields from the applet into a Windows Application that is compatible with the System Clipboard?

Thanks,

David Bowles

 

[sedj]

Had you considered using the Clipboard object ?!!

http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/api/java/awt/datatransfer/Clipboard.html

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[dabowles]

I was told that the Clipboard cannot be used to copy to the System clipboard because of the security settings within an Applet and the only way around this is to create a signed applet which i think is going to far out. Is this not true?

David Bowles

 

[sedj]

Yes well that could be a problem if you don't want to sign the applets.
Not sure how to do what you request without this ...

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[CorruptedLogic]

I'm trying to copy data to the clipboard from a web based java app. I have info from the software company who wrote the app saying that all i need to do is add a line to the java.policy file specifically, this:

permission java.awt.AWTPermission "accessClipboard";


Trouble is, it does not work. My experience of java programming is absolute zero, i'm kinda working blind here.

Java plugin version is 1.3.1_02-b02. I cannot upgrade the java plugin to the latest version as the "wonderful" app which uses it will not support a later version..

Any help would be greatly appreciated!!

Thanks in advance!

 

[Diancecht]

Some info on policy file:

http://www.dcs.ed.ac.uk/home/hase/javahase/doc/clipboard.html

If you prefer using tools

http://projects.randyhoyt.net/unigreek/installjava.html

Cheers,

Dian