[news.eclipse.platform.rcp] Re: LocalSelectionTransfer and clipboard

[Francis Upton <francisu@xxxxxxxx>]

Try this instead:

clipboard.setContents(new Object[] {new 
StructuredSelection(selectedObject)},
 		      new Transfer[] {LocalSelectionTransfer.getTransfer()});

The LocalSelectionTransfer expects to deal with an ISelection.

Then to get the contents, I use:

ISelection selection = LocalSelectionTransfer.getTransfer()
                        .getSelection();


Kerri wrote:
> Is it ok to use LocalSelectionTransfer with the org.eclipse.swt.dnd.Clipboard?  I'm having a problem getting contents back from the clipboard so I wrote these 2 lines of code.  In the debugger I can see that the data is stored in the clipboard from the first line but I can't get it back out.
>
> I have these 2 lines of code and the second one returns null.
>
> clipboard.setContents(new Object[] {selectedObject}, 
> 		      new Transfer[] {LocalSelectionTransfer.getTransfer()});
> 		
> Object lsObject = clipboard.getContents( LocalSelectionTransfer.getTransfer());
>
>
> Thanks for any advice!
> Kerri