how to get find out the keyboard shortcut for the paste action?

[Jeremy Wood]

Sorry this went so long without a reply.

 > Is there a way to ask Java would the right keyboard shortcut should 
be?

Yes. Try:

int modifier = Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().getMenuShortcutKeyMaskEx()

A sample usage is below.

import javax.swing.*;
import javax.swing.border.EmptyBorder;
import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.KeyEvent;

public class ShortcutDemo extends JFrame {
public static void main(String[] args) {
EventQueue.invokeLater(new Runnable() {
@Override
public void run() {
ShortcutDemo d = new ShortcutDemo();
d.pack();
d.setVisible(true);
             }
         });
     }

public ShortcutDemo() {
JMenuBar menuBar = new JMenuBar();
JMenu editMenu = new JMenu("Edit");
JMenuItem copyMenuItem = new JMenuItem("Copy");
copyMenuItem.setAccelerator(KeyStroke.getKeyStroke(KeyEvent.VK_C,
Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().getMenuShortcutKeyMaskEx()));

menuBar.add(editMenu);
editMenu.add(copyMenuItem);
         setJMenuBar(menuBar);

JLabel label = new JLabel("Placeholder Label");
label.setBorder(new EmptyBorder(20,20,20,20));
         getContentPane().add(label);
     }
}
Does this answer your question?

Regards,
  - Jeremy

------ Original Message ------
>From mark.yagnatinsky at barclays.com
To client-libs-dev at openjdk.org
Date 2/7/24, 2:47:55 PM
Subject how to get find out the keyboard shortcut for the paste action?

>Some swing components such as text fields have built in support for 
>copy and paste.
>
>But if you want to add such support for a component that doesn’t, then 
>one of the things you might want to do is support standard keyboard 
>shortcuts.
>
>Luckily, there’s a tutorial for doing this kind of thing, let’s see how 
>they do it:
>
>https://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/uiswing/dnd/listpaste.html
>
>Uh oh…
>
>getKeyStroke("ctrl V")
>
>The tutorial simply hardcodes the relevant shortcuts.
>
>I suspect that this works fine on windows, and will lead Mac users to 
>grumble.
>
>Is there a way to ask Java would the right keyboard shortcut should be?
>
>I suppose one could always create a scratch text field just to look 
>through its input map, but seems a bit hacky.
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