jclipboardhelper

Helper library for dealing with the System clipboard in Java.

License	GNU General Public License 3
Categories	CLI User Interface
GroupId	com.github.fracpete
ArtifactId	jclipboardhelper
Last Version	0.1.2
Release Date	Jul 5, 2018
Type	jar
Description	jclipboardhelper Helper library for dealing with the System clipboard in Java.
Project URL	https://github.com/fracpete/jclipboardhelper
Source Code Management	https://github.com/fracpete/jclipboardhelper

Download jclipboardhelper

Filename	Size
jclipboardhelper-0.1.2.pom
jclipboardhelper-0.1.2.jar	9 KB
jclipboardhelper-0.1.2-sources.jar	7 KB
jclipboardhelper-0.1.2-javadoc.jar	50 KB

How to add to project

Apache Maven

<!-- https://jarcasting.com/artifacts/com.github.fracpete/jclipboardhelper/ -->
<dependency>
    <groupId>com.github.fracpete</groupId>
    <artifactId>jclipboardhelper</artifactId>
    <version>0.1.2</version>
</dependency>

Gradle Groovy

// https://jarcasting.com/artifacts/com.github.fracpete/jclipboardhelper/
implementation 'com.github.fracpete:jclipboardhelper:0.1.2'

Gradle Kotlin

// https://jarcasting.com/artifacts/com.github.fracpete/jclipboardhelper/
implementation ("com.github.fracpete:jclipboardhelper:0.1.2")

Apache Buildr

'com.github.fracpete:jclipboardhelper:jar:0.1.2'

Apache Ivy

<dependency org="com.github.fracpete" name="jclipboardhelper" rev="0.1.2">
  <artifact name="jclipboardhelper" type="jar" />
</dependency>

Groovy Grape

@Grapes(
@Grab(group='com.github.fracpete', module='jclipboardhelper', version='0.1.2')
)

Scala SBT

libraryDependencies += "com.github.fracpete" % "jclipboardhelper" % "0.1.2"

Leiningen

[com.github.fracpete/jclipboardhelper "0.1.2"]

Dependencies

There are no dependencies for this project. It is a standalone project that does not depend on any other jars.

Project Modules

There are no modules declared in this project.

jclipboardhelper

Helper library for dealing with the sytem's clipboard in Java.

Maven

You can use the following dependency in your pom.xml:

<dependency>
  <groupId>com.github.fracpete</groupId>
  <artifactId>jclipboardhelper</artifactId>
  <version>0.1.2</version>
</dependency>

Supported formats

• Copy to clipboard

  • java.lang.String
  • java.awt.image.BufferedImage
  • javax.swing.JComponent -- creates images from it
  • javax.swing.JTable -- call the table's copy action
  • java.awt.datatransfer.Transferable -- supply your own implementation

• Paste from clipboard

  • java.lang.String
  • java.awt.image.BufferedImage
  • java.awt.datatransfer.Transferable -- returns just an Object

Example usage

Example code for copying data to the clipboard:

import java.awt.image.BufferedImage;
import com.github.fracpete.jclipboardhelper.ClipboardHelper;
...
// string
ClipboardHelper.copyToClipboard("Hello World");
// image
BufferedImage img = ...  // from somewhere
ClipboardHelper.copyToClipboard(img);

Example code for obtaining data from the clipboard:

import java.awt.image.BufferedImage;
import com.github.fracpete.jclipboardhelper.ClipboardHelper;
...
// string available?
if (ClipboardHelper.canPasteStringFromClipboard()) {
  String s = ClipboardHelper.pasteStringFromClipboard();
}
// image available?
if (ClipboardHelper.canPasteImageFromClipboard()) {
  BufferedImage img = ClipboardHelper.pasteImageFromClipboard();
}

Example for clearing the clipboard:

import com.github.fracpete.jclipboardhelper.ClipboardHelper;
...
ClipboardHelper.clearClipboard();

Versions

Version
0.1.2 Jul 5, 2018
0.1.1 Feb 2, 2017
0.1.0 Apr 29, 2016