quick swing toolbar question

[smacker]

i'm looking to build a notepad
now i need to do the copy paste and cut in the toolbar
my my question is how do i access the marked text
like if i mark a text inside the text box and i want to make the function work on him
please help with some direction

thanks a lot to all helpers !

[KevinWorkman]

Have you consulted the API at all? It should be your best friend.

Java Platform SE 6

[smacker]

ok i found the clipboard thing in there should be usefull with the set and get content but the question remains
how do i reffer the button to a marked text in the textbox

[smacker]

.getselectedtext , just found it
am i going the right way with this ?

[Fubarable]

All Swing text components such as JTextField, JTextArea, JEditorPane and JTextPane ultimately derive from JTextComponent which has cut(), copy(), and paste() methods. I would simply start with those methods first.

[smacker]

hehe yea that pretty much settles it , didn't know that was there , got all complexed

thanks a lot to all

[camickr]

now i need to do the copy paste and cut in the toolbar

Use the default Actions provided by the editor kits:

toolBar.add( new JButton( new DefaultEditorKit.CutAction() ) );

See: Text Component Features (The Java™ Tutorials > Creating a GUI With JFC/Swing > Using Swing Components) for a more complete working example.

[DarrylBurke]

Moved from SWT/JFace

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