Copy styles to other applications

[willplatt]

Is there a way to copy text with styling such that it can be pasted (with styling) into other applications like word processors? If not, this would be a useful feature.

I had a look at style codecs, but they only appear to be used for copying styles in a way that RichTextFX can understand. For inline styles at least it seems like it should be fairly straightforward for a codec to put them into HTML format in the clipboard. In my case I also want support for style classes, which is more complicated, but I think it could be done if the stylesheets are passed to the codec. Any suggestions on how to do this?

[Jugen]

Is there a way to copy text with styling such that it can be pasted (with styling) into other applications like word processors?

There are no built-in codecs or other translation code to do this.

.... if the stylesheets are passed to the codec. Any suggestions on how to do this?

Since it'll be your custom codec that you'll set with area.setStyleCodecs you could pass the stylesheet/URL to your codec through its constructor.

An alternative to using codecs is to have a context menu with items like "Copy for HTML", "Copy for RTF", "Copy for Word". Then on user selection you encode the styled segments as appropriate for the destination application and put it on the clipboard. Something like:

// process the whole document
for ( var p : getParagraphs() )
{
    for ( var s : p.getStyledSegments() )
    {
        var style = s.getStyle();
        var text = s.getSegment();
        // encode for HTML, RTF, Word, etc
    }

    // add paragraph/new line separator
}

var content = new ClipboardContent();
content.put????( encodedContent );

Clipboard.getSystemClipboard().setContent( content );