ecologylab.generic
Class DataTransferTools

java.lang.Object
  ecologylab.generic.Debug
      ecologylab.generic.DataTransferTools

public class DataTransferTools
extends Debug

Help for working with Sun's attrocious drag and drop and clipboard "support".

Author:

andruid

Constructor Summary

DataTransferTools()

Method Summary

static byte[]

convertToMSCfHtml(java.lang.String html) surrounds the html with this envelope, ready for windows clipboard (jdk support can be made better)

Methods inherited from class ecologylab.generic.Debug

classSimpleName, closeLoggingFile, debug, debug, debug, debug, debugA, debugA, debugA, debugI, debugI, debugI, error, error, getClassName, getClassName, getInteractive, getPackageName, getPackageName, getPackageName, initialize, level, level, level, logToFile, print, print, println, println, println, println, println, println, printlnA, printlnA, printlnA, printlnI, printlnI, printlnI, printlnI, setLoggingFile, show, show, superString, toggleInteractive, toString, toString, warning, warning, weird, weird

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

equals, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

DataTransferTools

public DataTransferTools()

Method Detail

convertToMSCfHtml

public static byte[] convertToMSCfHtml(java.lang.String html)
                                throws java.io.UnsupportedEncodingException

surrounds the html with this envelope, ready for windows clipboard (jdk support can be made better)

 Version:1.0
 StartHTML:00000000000
 EndHTML:00000000000
 StartFragment:00000000000
 EndFragment:00000000000
 <!--StartFragment-->
 ...
 <!-- EndFragment-- >
 

We have to return a byte array 'cause in Windows the html needs to be utf-8 encoded. And because we have to calculate char-offsets, we encode it here.

Parameters:

html -

Returns:

byte[]

Throws:

java.io.UnsupportedEncodingException