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How to make an "Edit" menu

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From: Erwin Bolwit
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1998 00:00
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Hi,

I've been breaking my head over this:

Is there a standard way to create an Edit-menu with
cut, copy, and pastee in swing. I haven't found it.
It is easy when there is one editorpane in your
application, as the swing NotePad and StylePad show,
but what if you use a more complex layout (possible
CardLayout) with multiple JTextFields and JTextArea's?

How to find out which component currently has the
focus, and what to tell that component? Can I somehow
send it the correct Action event, should I simulate a
KeyEvent (but how to remain cross-platform with
platforms that use different key bindings for
Cut/Copy/Paste?)

Unless I'm missing something obvious, it looks like
something is missing from the Swing API. Anybody have a
better experience?

Erwin
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Date: 1998/08/18
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