Formatted cliboard Java

Question

I am having an issue trying to figure out how to retain formatting of text in a Java program when saving to the system clipboard.

It does not work with things such

Answer 1

After much searching around and trial and error and help from a friend Sebastian and Logan, it seems to be figured out. This allows multiple formats of data to be saved to the clip board at one time in Java while also retaining the styling and formatting of the text. Hopefully this helps someone. This was also a good resource. http://www.pindari.com/rtf1.html

import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.datatransfer.*;
import java.io.*;

public class clipBoard{
//Creates the RTF string 
private static final String RTF_STRING = "{\\rtf1\\ansi\\deff0\r\n{\\colortbl;\\red0\\green0\\blue0;\\red255\\green0\\blue0;}\r\nThis line is the default color\\line\r\n\\cf2\r\nThis line is red\\line\r\n\\cf1\r\nThis line is the default color\r\n}\r\n}";
//Creates the plain text string
private static final String PLAIN_STRING = "This line is the default color \n This line is red \n This line is the default color";
//Array of data for specific flavor
private static final Object data[] = {new ByteArrayInputStream(RTF_STRING.getBytes()),new ByteArrayInputStream(PLAIN_STRING.getBytes())};
//Plain favor
private static final DataFlavor PLAIN_FLAVOR = new DataFlavor("text/plain", "Plain Flavor");
//RTF flavor
private static final DataFlavor RTF_FLAVOR = new DataFlavor("text/rtf", "Rich Formatted Text");
//Array of data flavors
private static final DataFlavor flavors[] = {RTF_FLAVOR,PLAIN_FLAVOR};

public static void main(String[] args){
    //Create clip board object
    Clipboard cb = Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().getSystemClipboard();
    //Create transferable object
    Transferable p = new MyTransferable(data,flavors);
    //Transfer to clip board
    cb.setContents(p, null);
}

static class MyTransferable implements Transferable{
    //Array of data
    private Object dataA[] = null;
    //Array of flavors
    private DataFlavor flavorA[] = null;

    //Transferable class constructor
    public MyTransferable(Object data[], DataFlavor flavors[]){
        //Set the data passed in to the local variable
        dataA = data;
        //Set the flavors passes in to the local variable
        flavorA = flavors;
    }

    public Object getTransferData (DataFlavor df) throws UnsupportedFlavorException, IOException{
        //If text/rtf flavor is requested
        if (df.getMimeType().contains("text/rtf")){
            //Return text/rtf data
            return dataA[0];
        }
        //If plain flavor is requested
        else if (df.getMimeType().contains("text/plain")){
            //Return text/plain data
            return dataA[1];
        }
        else{
            throw new UnsupportedFlavorException(df);
        }
    }

    public boolean isDataFlavorSupported (DataFlavor df){
        //If the flavor is text/rtf or tet/plain return true
        if(df.getMimeType().contains("text/rtf") || df.getMimeType().contains("text/plain")){
            return true;
        }
        //Return false
        else{
            return false;
        }
    }

    public DataFlavor[] getTransferDataFlavors(){
        //Return array of flavors
        return flavorA;
    }
 }
}