oracle.ide

Class IdeClipboard

java.lang.Object

oracle.ide.IdeClipboard

public class IdeClipboard
extends java.lang.Object

Provides means to install and access IDE clipboard. The IDE clipboard is a workaround for problems described in JDK bug 4818143. It caches the contents of system clipboard and accesses the system clipboard in a separate thread. The cache is synchronized with the system clipboard when any of our Windows gets WINDOW_ACTIVATED event. It means that if some other application modifies the contents of the system clipboard in the background then the change won't be propagated to us immediately. The other drawback is that if an extension code bypasses IDE clipboard and accesses the system clipboard directly then we don't see these changes.

Since:

11.1.2.0.0

Method Summary

Methods

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
static java.awt.datatransfer.Clipboard	getClipboard() Returns IDE clipboard.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Method Detail

getClipboard

public static java.awt.datatransfer.Clipboard getClipboard()
                                                    throws java.awt.HeadlessException

Returns IDE clipboard. Extensions should always use this method to access clipboard. They should not access system clipboard (i.e., Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().getSystemClipboard()) directly.

Returns:

IDE clipboard.

Throws:

java.awt.HeadlessException - when invoked in headless mode (i.e., when GraphicsEnvironment.isHeadless() returns true).