Re: Using Copy (Ctrl-C) functionality with disabled JTextFields

From: Brad BARCLAY (bbarclay_at_jsyncmanager.org)
Date: 11/25/03

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    Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2003 23:42:06 GMT

    JMBollard wrote:
    > I am working on a Swing application (Java 1.4 ) and I am having
    > trouble implementing the following functionality:
    > A JTextField that should not be part of focus traversal (should
    > not be tabbed to), but the text can be selected and copied (Ctrl-C).

            Okay -- first off, Ctrl-C isn't Copy on every platform. Many use
    Shift-Insert instead. So if you're coding a platform-neutral
    application, don't hard-code Ctrl-C -- let the OS take care of it.

            As to your specific issue, if you don't want to simply remove the
    JTextField from the tab order, why not just disable it (as I'm assuming
    you want to do) and then put a "Copy" button beside it that will take
    its output and send it to the clipboard through the proper Transferrable
    object? Seems to be the easiest way to me.

    Brad BARCLAY 

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