Question

Lets say I have this code:

  public static void main(final String [] args)
  {
    final JFrame frame = new JFrame("Display Keyword Panel");
    final JPanel panel = new JPanel(new BorderLayout());


    JTextField text1 = new JTextField("This is the first text field");
    text1.setBorder(null);
    text1.setOpaque(false);
    text1.setEditable(false);

    JTextField text2 = new JTextField("This is the second text field");
    text2.setBorder(null);
    text2.setOpaque(false);
    text2.setEditable(false);

    panel.add(text1, BorderLayout.NORTH);
    panel.add(text2, BorderLayout.SOUTH);

    frame.setLayout(new BorderLayout());
    frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
    frame.getContentPane().add(panel, BorderLayout.CENTER);
    frame.setLocation(450, 400);
    frame.pack();
    frame.setVisible(true);
  }

I would like to select text over both text1 and text2 fields so that I can copy them both at the same time. But when I run the application I can only select the text from 1 text field at a time. How can I make it so that I can select text over all of the text fields that I might have in my program?

Answer 1

How about making a JButton to copy the concatenation of both JTextField‘s?

For example:

btn.setActionListener(new ActionListener()
{
    @Override
    public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e)
    {
        java.awt.datatransfer.StringSelection strsel = new java.awt.datatransfer.StringSelection(textField1.getText() + textField2.getText());
        java.awt.datatransfer.Clipboard clbrd = java.awt.Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().getSystemClipboard();
        clbrd.setContents(strsel, strsel);
    }
});