Hi Thomas,

The copy-past behavior is implemented with the drag-and-drop API of SWT.
Specifically, the Clipboard and FileTransfer are of interest for the
copy-pasting of files.
Have a look at this article as a starter:
https://www.eclipse.org/articles/Article-SWT-DND/DND-in-SWT.html#_Using_the_Clipboard

Best Regards,
Rolf

Op di 26 jan. 2021 om 11:29 schreef Thomas Singer <ts-...@syntevo.com>:

> Hi,
>
> For text everything works as expected. Cutting a text immediately
> removes it from the text control (it is stored in the clipboard) and on
> paste it will be inserted.
>
> But I'm trying to understand how to handle a typical file manager
> workflow: a user selects a file in the Windows Explorer, invokes Cut
> (Ctrl+X) and in an SWT-based application pastes the file. How can the
> SWT-based application find out whether the file was cut or copied?
>
> --
> Best regards,
> Thomas Singer
> _______________________________________________
> platform-dev mailing list
> platform-dev@eclipse.org
> To unsubscribe from this list, visit
> https://www.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/platform-dev
>
_______________________________________________
platform-dev mailing list
platform-dev@eclipse.org
To unsubscribe from this list, visit 
https://www.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/platform-dev

Reply via email to