Populating applet text components

[Joshua Smith]

I found that a lot of my copy/paste bugs only happen in unsigned applets. Is signing the applet an option?

On Nov 28, 2012, at 5:48 AM, Michael Hall <mik3hall at gmail.com> wrote:

> I have just been coding an applet where I intended some slightly involved text to be pasted into a text component.
> I found out as per [1] that a 1.6 update eliminated applet paste access to the clipboard.
> In appletviewer testing I tried drag and drop and that seemed to work, so this seemed a reasonable other option.
> This morning I uploaded the applet and tried to test there. Drag and drop did not work from either Safari or Firefox.
> Does the browser provide a blocking layer that keeps the drag and drop from getting to the applet? If not is something wrong in the implementation that keeps it from working in the browsers.
> Given that paste doesn't work this would be a nice substitute option to have working. 
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> [1] https://blogs.oracle.com/kyle/entry/copy_and_paste_in_java
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> Michael Hall
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