Introduction
When processing contents in a document via OpenOffice.org API you sometimes need to copy & paste contents between documents or duplicate contents of one document.
To do this, you can use the standard copy&paste functionality of the OpenOffice.org UI. But this has some disatvantages:
- existing contents of the clipboard are lost
- parallel usage of copy&paste by the user can cause unexpected results
- forgotten contents in the clipboard can be a security problem
Because of this it’s preferable to copy&paste by bypassing the clipboard. This is possible using the OpenOffice.org API as the following example shows.
The implementation
To use copy&paste, you need a XTransferableSupplier that you can get from your document’s controller:
XTextDocument xTextDocument = ... ;
XController xController = document.getCurrentController();
XTransferableSupplier xTransferableSupplier = UnoRuntime.queryInterface(XTransferableSupplier.class, xController);
The next step is to select the content that should be copied using the XSelectionSupplier:
XSelectionSupplier xSelectionSupplier = UnoRuntime.queryInterface(XSelectionSupplier.class, xController);
xSelectionSupplier.select(contentToSelect);
The contentToSelect is for example a XTextCursor to copy a part of a text document or a XCellRange to copy contents of a table.
To copy the contents use the getTransferable method of the xTransferableSupplier:
XTransferable transferable = xTransferableSupplier.getTransferable();
The XTransferable contains the copied contents that can be pasted to another part of your document. To do that, move the selection using the xSelectionSupplier and paste using the xSelectionSupplier:
xSelectionSupplier.select(newRow);
xTransferableSupplier.insertTransferable(transferable);
