Bug 61876

Summary:	[Clipboard] API to _add_ content to the clipboard
Product:	[Eclipse Project] Platform	Reporter:	Martin Aeschlimann <martinae>
Component:	SWT	Assignee:	Kevin Barnes <cocoakevin>
Status:	NEW ---	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	P3	CC:	christof_marti, daniel_megert, steve_northover
Version:	3.0
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Windows XP
Whiteboard:

Description Martin Aeschlimann

2004-05-12 06:31:46 EDT

20040512

In the Java editor we add extra information to the clipboard on copy and paste.
But (as far as I know) the only way to manipulate the clipboard is set (replace) it.
I currently solve this by making assumptions that the styled text widget only
uses the text and the rtf transfer, so I read them and enhance them with my
information.

Is there a way to get all the current tranfers, or is there a way to 'add'
instead of 'set' the clipboard?

Comment 1 Veronika Irvine

2004-05-12 15:56:17 EDT

Clipboard.getAvailableTypes() returns a TransferData[] which will give you all 
of the currently available types.  Note that some of these types may not be 
supported by SWT (e.g. image data transfer).

New API for "adding" to the clipboard will not be created in 3.0.  Currently, 
we do not use a lazy mechanism for presenting the data to the OS clipboard.  
Therefore this change would require a complete rework of the Clipboard on all 
platforms.

Comment 2 Dani Megert

2004-07-29 09:05:25 EDT

>Clipboard.getAvailableTypes() 
We know about this one, but how can this be used to get the data using
Clipboard.getContents(...) which expects a Transfer and not a TransferData object?

Comment 3 Eclipse Webmaster

2019-09-06 16:09:22 EDT

This bug hasn't had any activity in quite some time. Maybe the problem got resolved, was a duplicate of something else, or became less pressing for some reason - or maybe it's still relevant but just hasn't been looked at yet.

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