Textselection always copied to clipboard?

[Bjoern . Stenersen]

Thomas DeWeese <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb am 26.12.2004 18:19:56:

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> > Bj�rn Stenersen/sinw schrieb am 15.12.2004 15:56:54:
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> >  > Thomas DeWeese <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb am 15.12.200413:05:30:
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> >  > > > i am trying to implement 'copy&paste' in my application. First i
> > thought
> >  > > > everything works great, when i pressed ctrl-c the selected text was
> >  > > > copied to the clibboard. Then i realized i do not have press
> >  > > > ctrl-c, the text always gets copied to clipboard when a selection
> >  > > > is made
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> > You can look at ConcreteTextSelector, line 272, getSelection() always
> > returns null:-(
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>     Not in my copy of Batik. I did some cleanup of selection to support
> the SVG DOM text selection methods, so perhaps this was done after
> 1.5.1 (getting to be time for a new release huh?).  Perhaps if I can
> track down the large memory leak George was talking about... ;)

I also tried a nightly build and debugged it. I thought this was the reason why
a selection made by a double-click is not copied to clipboard.

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> >  > I already had this idea, but won�t work cause copyToClipboard() is
> >  > private, same
> >  > problem I had with other functions in ConcreteTextSelector.
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>     Well you have access to the source, so you can 'fix' anything you
> want.  I'll probably change this and any other private methods to be
> protected.
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> > I still have the same problem, everything I tried did not work. Does
> > anyone have another idea?
> > Anyway, i think this problem will bother more people than me, what do
> > you think about adding a function like
> >
> > public void setTextSelectionManager(TextSelectionManagerAdapter a);
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> > to JGVTComponent in a future release?
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>      Sure, I'd be happy to. Anyone want to write the patch and submit
> it?   You might want to open a bugzilla bug on this.

I opened a bug on this. Perhaps i will write the patch if my boss thinks we need this feature :-)
Is there a readme how to contribute a patch?

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