How to have access to system's clipboard through java programing?

Question

Hi, i am making a text editor in java language. Now to provide cut copy and paste functions i need access to system's clipboard. How to have access to system's clipboard. Explain me in detail and if possible please provide java coding.

Answer 1

Is this an AWT program? If so, you can use java.awt.Toolkit.getSystemClipboard(), which returns a java.awt.datatransfer.Clipboard.

For more information on using the data on the clipboard and copying data to it, see the article in the third link below, which explains the whole concept of DataFlavors.