I would like to write a Java program that has a button. When the button is pressed it pastes / drops the content of the system clipboard to the text field that currently has focus within an arbitrary, possibly non-Java app (say MS Word). Essentially the button action has to simulate the sending of CTRL-V (paste) action somehow.
Does any one have any suggestions?
解决方案
The package java.awt.datatransfer seems to be a solution, according to this article. Here is another article.
From the latter page, the needed imports:
import java.awt.datatransfer.*;
import java.awt.Toolkit;
And the method code is below. The solution is to create a listener and add it to the button. The listener should simply get the contents of the clipboard and insert it to whatever component you wish.
public void setClipboardContents( String aString ){
StringSelection stringSelection = new StringSelection( aString );
Clipboard clipboard = Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().getSystemClipboard();
clipboard.setContents( stringSelection, this );
}
public String getClipboardContents() {
String result = "";
Clipboard clipboard = Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().getSystemClipboard();
//odd: the Object param of getContents is not currently used
Transferable contents = clipboard.getContents(null);
boolean hasTransferableText =
(contents != null) &&
contents.isDataFlavorSupported(DataFlavor.stringFlavor)
;
if ( hasTransferableText ) {
try {
result = (String)contents.getTransferData(DataFlavor.stringFlavor);
}
catch (UnsupportedFlavorException ex){
//highly unlikely since we are using a standard DataFlavor
System.out.println(ex);
ex.printStackTrace();
}
catch (IOException ex) {
System.out.println(ex);
ex.printStackTrace();
}
}
return result;
}