Alexander Dupuy wrote:
>
> Java supports primary selections as well as clipboard, but Swing only
> has built-in support for setting the primary selection in text and table
> objects, and setting the primary selection for those only appeared in
> 1.4. In any case, even with Java 1.4.1, the M1.3 XXE appears to use
> objects that do not set or get the X primary selection.
>
> It would be nice if XXE 2 would support X primary selections as well as
> clipboard; it's quite easy to retrofit - example code looks like this:
>
> > /**
> > * Copy a String to the system selection and possibly to the system
> > clipboard.
> > *
> > * @param s String to copy
> > * @param wantCopy if true additionally copy to system clipboard.
> > */
> > static final void copyToClipboard(final String s, boolean wantCopy)
> > {
> > final Toolkit tk = Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit();
> > final Clipboard pri = tk.getSystemSelection();
> > final Clipboard cb = tk.getSystemClipboard();
> > final StringSelection ss = new StringSelection(s);
> >
> > pri.setContents(ss,ss);
> >
> > if (wantCopy)
> > cb.setContents(ss,ss);
> > }
Thanks for the detailed reply to Karl DeBisschop.
I didn't know that Java now supports X primary selections. We'll see
what we can do in this area...
