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  2. JDK-8130362

Support for select text, cut, copy & paste

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    • Enhancement
    • Resolution: Unresolved
    • P4
    • tbd
    • 8u45
    • javafx

    • Win 8.1, JDK 8u45, 64 Bit

    • generic
    • generic

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      It would be really great if TextFlow would support selecting, cutting, copying and pasting text, just as a user is used to it from any other text control.

      Certainly this is not as simple to achieve as with pure text controls, as non-textual nodes like icons could be part of the flow. Nevertheless, what a user typically wants to find in the clipboard after a copy action is not pure text, but may be an object graph instead. He could paste that object graph into a different TextFlow in turn.

      Would be cool to have this in a future release of JavaFX. :-)

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          Sub-task - The sub-task of the issue JDK-8136346 [TextFlow] Expose API to obtain caret and selection shapes

          • P3 - Major loss of function.
          • Resolved

          Enhancement - null JDK-8091997 Cannot select TableCell text or label text

          • P4 - Minor loss of function, or other problem where easy workaround is present.
          • Open

          Enhancement - null JDK-8092278 Text should have API for selecting group of characters based on their position similar to the DOM's Range.

          • P4 - Minor loss of function, or other problem where easy workaround is present.
          • Closed

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              angorya Andy Goryachev
              mkarg Markus Karg
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