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Ok. I have a java class that outputs the system clipboard. so if you copy text on your server with a ctrl c, it saves it to the clipboard. when I run the class via command line it is getting this text, however, when coldfusion calls this same class it sees the clipboard as being null. any idea what I can do to debug this?
I know his is vague, so if you have any questions shoot away.
my java class is as follows:
import java.awt.AWTException;
import java.awt.Robot;
import java.awt.Rectangle;
import java.awt.Toolkit;
import java.awt.image.BufferedImage;
import java.io.*;
import javax.imageio.ImageIO;
import java.awt.datatransfer.Clipboard;
import java.awt.event.KeyEvent;
import java.awt.datatransfer.*;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.awt.Image;
import javax.imageio.*;
public class ScreenCapture2 {
public static void main(String[] args) {
runit();
}
public static void runit() {
Transferable t = Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().getSystemClipboard().getContents(null);
System.out.println(getClipboardData());
}
public static String getClipboardData() {
String clipboardText;
Transferable trans = Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().getSystemClipboard()
.getContents(null);
try {
if (trans != null
&& trans.isDataFlavorSupported(DataFlavor.stringFlavor)) {
clipboardText = (String) trans
.getTransferData(DataFlavor.stringFlavor);
return clipboardText;
}
} catch (Exception e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
return null;
}
coldfusion meanwhile calls a batch file that executes this class.
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What happens when you send the output to file, like this
<cfexecute name="java" arguments="-classpath c:\javaProjects\test\ScreenCapture2" outputFile="C:\javaProjects\test\clipboard.txt" />