JTextArea cut and paste question

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Andrew Walsh - 13 Jun 2004 18:59 GMT

On MS Windows, I'm using ctl-C and ctl-V to cut and paste text info
between applications.

But when I use ctl-C to copy text from a JTextArea, it loses its
line endings ("\r\n" in this case). Can anyone please give me
a clue?

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Alan Moore - 14 Jun 2004 07:18 GMT

>On MS Windows, I'm using ctl-C and ctl-V to cut and paste text info
>between applications.
>
>But when I use ctl-C to copy text from a JTextArea, it loses its
>line endings ("\r\n" in this case). Can anyone please give me
>a clue?

Actually, Swing text components use "\n" to separate lines. When you
use the built-in methods to paste text into the JTextArea or to read
text in from a file, the line separators get converted. But no such
conversion takes place when you cut or copy from the JTextArea, so it
may that whatever you're pasting the text into just doesn't recognize
the "\n" for what it is.

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Andrew Walsh - 14 Jun 2004 19:05 GMT

> Actually, Swing text components use "\n" to separate lines. When you
> use the built-in methods to paste text into the JTextArea or to read
> text in from a file, the line separators get converted.

ahaa, thanks very much. I suppose I could write my own code to
paste the contents of the text component into clipboard using platform
specific line-endings and invoke it using a button instead of ctl-c.

Sound feasible? Or is there an obviously easier solution?

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Steve W. Jackson - 14 Jun 2004 20:51 GMT

>:Alan Moore <jbigboote@yoyodyne.com> wrote in message
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>:Sound feasible? Or is there an obviously easier solution?

I think you should be able to use the copy() method inherited from
JTextComponent, shouldn't you? The API says it transfers the currently
selected range to the system clipboard. JTextArea, JTextPane and
JEditorPane all inherit from that common abstract class.

= Steve =

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Alan Moore - 15 Jun 2004 07:33 GMT

>> Actually, Swing text components use "\n" to separate lines. When you
>> use the built-in methods to paste text into the JTextArea or to read
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>Sound feasible? Or is there an obviously easier solution?

I think that would be the easiest way. I once looked into the
possibility of overriding the existing behavior, but gave up after
taking over an hour just to *find* the relevant code. Adding your own
action should be much less painful.

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