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CopyPasteInVrjConfigStory

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Currently editing in VrjConfig is hella-annoying since you cannot copy elements or definitions. This support needs to be added in ASAP.

Implementation notes

It appears that I'm supposed to use the Clipboard API (in java.awt.datatransfer). However, I cannot find any good documentation on it and the API is rather cryptic. Unfortunately, the drag-n-drop API depends on the Clipboard API mandating that I should probably use the Clipboard API. If I cannot figure out how to use the Clipboard API in a few hours, I will throw something custom together for the Alpha2 release.

Apparently, Sun has just added an in-progress documentation on doing DnD and copy-paste with Swing apps in the Java Tutorial. It seems that Swing doesn't support the APIs until Java 1.4. I looks like I may need to update the java requirement for VrjConfig to Java 1.4 in order to complete this task. Thankfully, it appears that IRIX now has a 1.4 JVM available.

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