[j-devel] clipboard on win2k/xp

[Greg J. L. <dev...@gr...>]

Hi Folks,

  First off, congratulations on this excellent tool. It fits perfectly my
needs!

  I have a question about the clipboard on windows. Apologies if it is a
dumb question, but I have been looking at the code and cannot see an obvious
answer. When I copy some text from a native application to the clipboard,
then hit edit -> paste in J, it pastes fine. However, if I copy anything
else to the clipboard, J only "remembers" the first thing copied and keeps
pasting it.

  I am working with an older version of J 0.18.1 (I am tied to jdk1.3.1),
however I have verified this behavior on the latest version (0.20.1) also.

  The paste() method in org.armedbear.j.Editor has a statment like:

Transferrable t = getToolkit().getSystemClipboard().getContents(this);

  t is always the first string copied to the clipboard. Subsequent copies
don't update the clipboard returned by getToolkit().getS..Clipboard().

  Is there something I am missing here, or is this something that anyone has
seen before?

  Thanks in advance for any suggestions,

=- Greg