Copying text to the clipboard using Java

Question

I want to copy text from a JTable s cell to the clipboard  making it available to be pasted into other programs such as Microsoft Word  I have the text from the JTable  but I am unsure how to copy it to the clipboard

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This works for me and is quite simple   Import these   import java awt datatransfer StringSelection  import java awt Toolkit  import java awt datatransfer Clipboard    And then put this snippet of code wherever you d like to alter the clipboard   String myString    This text will be copied into clipboard   StringSelection stringSelection   new StringSelection myString   Clipboard clipboard   Toolkit getDefaultToolkit   getSystemClipboard    clipboard setContents stringSelection  null

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For JavaFx based applications             returns System Clipboard         final Clipboard clipboard   Clipboard getSystemClipboard               ClipboardContent provides flexibility to store data in different formats         final ClipboardContent content   new ClipboardContent            content putString  Some text            content putHtml   lt b gt Some lt  b gt  text              this will be replaced by previous putString         content putString  Some different text              set the content to clipboard         clipboard setContent content             validate before retrieving it         if clipboard hasContent DataFormat HTML                System out println clipboard getHtml                       if clipboard hasString                 System out println clipboard getString                 ClipboardContent can save multiple data in several data formats like html url plain text image    For more information see official documentation

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I found a better way of doing it so you can get a input from a txtbox or have something be generated in that text box and be able to click a button to do it    import java awt datatransfer    import java awt Toolkit   private void    Action performed when the copy to clipboard button is clicked          String ctc   txtCommand getText   toString        StringSelection stringSelection   new StringSelection ctc       Clipboard clpbrd   Toolkit getDefaultToolkit   getSystemClipboard        clpbrd setContents stringSelection  null         txtCommand is the variable of a text box

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The following class allows you to copy paste a String to from the clipboard   import java awt    import java awt datatransfer Clipboard  import java awt datatransfer DataFlavor  import java awt datatransfer StringSelection   import static java awt event KeyEvent    import static org apache commons lang3 SystemUtils IS OS MAC   public class SystemClipboard       public static void copy String text                Clipboard clipboard   getSystemClipboard            clipboard setContents new StringSelection text   null              public static void paste   throws AWTException               Robot robot   new Robot             int controlKey   IS OS MAC   VK META   VK CONTROL          robot keyPress controlKey           robot keyPress VK V           robot keyRelease controlKey           robot keyRelease VK V              public static String get   throws Exception               Clipboard systemClipboard   getSystemClipboard            DataFlavor dataFlavor   DataFlavor stringFlavor           if  systemClipboard isDataFlavorAvailable dataFlavor                         Object text   systemClipboard getData dataFlavor               return  String  text                     return null             private static Clipboard getSystemClipboard                 Toolkit defaultToolkit   Toolkit getDefaultToolkit            return defaultToolkit getSystemClipboard

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This is the accepted answer written in a decorative way   Toolkit getDefaultToolkit            getSystemClipboard            setContents                  new StringSelection txtMySQLScript getText                     null

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