Paste text into Processing

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tclark1755

in Programming Questions • 2 years ago

Is there a way to have text saved on a user's clipboard to be pasted into a processing sketch.

What I'm trying to do is allow someone to paste their facebook url into a processing sketch and it to return some user data using the facebook API.

When I create a sketch that allows for keyboard input it doesnt recognize command v and the menu bar paste option is grayed out.

It probably has to be something along the lines of

if ( key v &command key==true){
put contents of clipboard into string and display on screen
}

Suggestions!?!?

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jeff_g

Re: Paste text into Processing

2 years ago

I use this to set the contents of the clipboard.. so I expect it would be similar to get the contents.

void clip(String cliptext) {
//Get the toolkit
Toolkit toolkit = Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit();
//Get the clipboard
Clipboard clipboard = toolkit.getSystemClipboard();
//The setContents method of the Clipboard instance takes a Transferable
//as first parameter. The StringSelection class implements the Transferable
//interface.
StringSelection stringSel = new StringSelection(cliptext);
//We specify null as the clipboard owner
clipboard.setContents(stringSel, null);
}

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