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8 changes: 6 additions & 2 deletions core-java-modules/core-java-swing/pom.xml
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
<artifactId>core-java-swing</artifactId>
<packaging>jar</packaging>
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<project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
</properties>

<build>
<sourceDirectory>src/main/java</sourceDirectory>
</build>

</project>
39 changes: 39 additions & 0 deletions core-java-modules/core-java-swing/src/main/java/com/baeldung/clipboard/AwtClipboard.java
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package com.baeldung.clipboard;

import java.awt.Toolkit;
import java.awt.datatransfer.Clipboard;
import java.awt.datatransfer.StringSelection;
import java.awt.datatransfer.Transferable;
import java.awt.datatransfer.UnsupportedFlavorException;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.awt.datatransfer.DataFlavor;

public class AwtClipboard {

public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException, UnsupportedFlavorException {
String textToCopy = "Baeldung helps developers explore the Java ecosystem and simply be better engineers.";
copyToClipboard(textToCopy);

String textCopied = copyFromClipboard();
if (textCopied != null) {
System.out.println(textCopied);
}
}

public static void copyToClipboard(String text) {
Clipboard cb = Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().getSystemClipboard();
StringSelection data = new StringSelection(text);
cb.setContents(data, null);
}

public static String copyFromClipboard() throws UnsupportedFlavorException, IOException {
Clipboard cb = Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().getSystemClipboard();
Transferable transferable = cb.getContents(null);
if (transferable.isDataFlavorSupported(DataFlavor.stringFlavor)) {
String data = (String) transferable.getTransferData(DataFlavor.stringFlavor);
return data;
}
System.out.println("Couldn't get data from the clipboard");
return null;
}
}