java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: createImageUsingNativeSize error in 1.8.0_45

[Paul Taylor]

On 23/07/2015 11:19, Paul Taylor wrote:
> This code that was used in some circumstances for dealing with single 
> images dragged and drop from certain webbrowsers (firefox) gave no 
> issues in 1.8.0_25
>
>     image  = (Image) 
> trans.getTransferData("image/x-java-image;class=java.awt.Image");
>
> but now in 1.8.0_45 causing
>
> java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: createImageUsingNativeSize
> at sun.lwawt.macosx.CDataTransferer.getImageForByteStream(Native Method)
> at 
> sun.lwawt.macosx.CDataTransferer.platformImageBytesToImage(CDataTransferer.java:238)
> at 
> sun.awt.datatransfer.DataTransferer.translateBytes(DataTransferer.java:1659)
> at 
> sun.lwawt.macosx.CDataTransferer.translateBytes(CDataTransferer.java:142)
> at 
> sun.awt.dnd.SunDropTargetContextPeer.getTransferData(SunDropTargetContextPeer.java:269)
> at 
> sun.awt.datatransfer.TransferableProxy.getTransferData(TransferableProxy.java:73)
> at 
> java.awt.dnd.DropTargetContext$TransferableProxy.getTransferData(DropTargetContext.java:376)
> at 
> com.jthink.jaikoz.draganddrop.ImageHandler.createImageCell(ImageHandler.java:30)
>
> Is this a bug in the new version of OSX Java or am I simply doing 
> something wrong, is there a simple workaround ?
>
> Paul
>
>
>
It seems to be 
https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8077016?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:worklog-tabpanel#issue-tabs 
but breaking use of the clipboard for copy and pate of images is a 
massive bug dont you think, surely this should be a priority 1 bug as we 
are not talking about some obscure functionality here ?

Paul