Re: [platform-dev] Clipboard: understand late-cut

[Thomas Singer <ts-swt@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Rolf,

Sorry, I don't understand how this answers my question. The normal text 
copy-paste I understand. I also understand how to retrieve the copied 
file paths (FileTransfer), but how to find out whether an application 
has cut or copied it? For drag and drop operations this information is 
stored in the DropTargetEvent.detail, but the Clipboard does not have 
this information. Neither a listener is missing to tell the process 
which puts the file into the clipboard that it was pasted.

--
Best regards,
Thomas Singer


On 2021-01-26 19:35, Rolf Theunissen wrote:
> Hi Thomas,
>
> The copy-past behavior is implemented with the drag-and-drop API of SWT.
> Specifically, the Clipboard and FileTransfer are of interest for the
> copy-pasting of files.
> Have a look at this article as a starter:
> https://www.eclipse.org/articles/Article-SWT-DND/DND-in-SWT.html#_Using_the_Clipboard
>
> Best Regards,
> Rolf
>
> Op di 26 jan. 2021 om 11:29 schreef Thomas Singer <ts-swt@xxxxxxxxxxx>:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > For text everything works as expected. Cutting a text immediately
> > removes it from the text control (it is stored in the clipboard) and on
> > paste it will be inserted.
> >
> > But I'm trying to understand how to handle a typical file manager
> > workflow: a user selects a file in the Windows Explorer, invokes Cut
> > (Ctrl+X) and in an SWT-based application pastes the file. How can the
> > SWT-based application find out whether the file was cut or copied?
> >
> > --
> > Best regards,
> > Thomas Singer
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