Hello, Hendrik. Interesting, because there was a similar problem that’s been fixed in 7u60 and 8: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-7173464
I’ll have a look at this, thank you for your report. With best regards. Petr. > On Jul 23, 2014, at 9:32 PM, Hendrik Schreiber <h...@tagtraum.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > on calling Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().getSystemClipboard().getContents(null) > I get the following exception: > > java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Comparison method violates its general > contract! > at java.util.TimSort.mergeHi(TimSort.java:895) > at java.util.TimSort.mergeAt(TimSort.java:512) > at java.util.TimSort.mergeCollapse(TimSort.java:437) > at java.util.TimSort.sort(TimSort.java:241) > at java.util.Arrays.sort(Arrays.java:1438) > at > sun.awt.datatransfer.DataTransferer.setToSortedDataFlavorArray(DataTransferer.java:2399) > at > sun.awt.datatransfer.ClipboardTransferable.<init>(ClipboardTransferable.java:101) > at sun.awt.datatransfer.SunClipboard.getContents(SunClipboard.java:144) > > I was not able to reproduce this, but as this happened on startup, I guess it > has to do with whatever was already in the system clipboard.. > Perhaps somebody wants to take a look at this. > > Cheers, > > -hendrik > > java version "1.8.0_20-ea" > Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0_20-ea-b23) > Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 25.20-b22, mixed mode)
