Re: [ jEdit-users ] Cut and Paste "clipboard" not accessable

[Jason V. C. <ja...@va...>]

Quoth CL, on Tue, 27 Apr 2004 11:56:23 -0700:

> BUT jEdit doesn't seem to share it's cut and paste ability with any 
> other program if I'm running it on a Unix machine.
> 
> Has anyone experienced this problem, if so any idea how to fix/work
> it?

I've had a similar problem writing Applets (and Java Web Start app's),
and it had to do with Java's "sandbox" security.  An applet, for
example, can use the system clipboard iff it uses a native text control,
but not if it uses a custom control, like a lightweight component.  It's
goofy.  I use lightweights, and I've had to add code to pop up a native
text field whenever the user wants to paste from the system clipboard. 
Blech!

With Java Web Start, I've read that unless all the JARs are signed and
the application explicitly requests system privileges, it can't access
the system clipboard at all.

So this smells like a security problem to me.

--Jason Van Cleve

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