Regarding Copy and paste operation

[yekkala krishna]

Hi,

I am new to swing appliation.In our application i need to add new functionality to Edit Menu with Copy and Paste operations.
Can any body help me how to develop this?If you have any application or logic regarding this please foward it to me.



Regards,
Rama Krishna.Y

[Maneesh Godbole]

Clipboard transfer is what you want.
Check out http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/guide/swing/1.4/dnd.html

[Rob Spoor]

Do you know how to create a menu with items? If not, please read How to use Menus.

Ok, now you know how to create a menu with items Now let's get to the actions behind the menu items. The first thing we need is a definition of what you want to copy and paste. Is it text? If so, where does it come from? JTextComponent, the base class of (nearly) all Swing text components, has methods copy(), cut() and paste() that you can call.

[Rob Camick]

Read the section from the Swing tutorial on Text Component Features. for a working example. It shows you how to use the default Cut, Copy, Paste Actions that come with the editor kit.