Copy on select for JTextArea

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Code

class CopyOnSelectListener
    extends MouseAdapter
    implements CaretListener, KeyListener {
  private boolean dragActive;
  private boolean shiftActive;
  private int dot;
  private int mark;

  @Override public final void caretUpdate(CaretEvent e) {
    if (!dragActive) {
      fire(e.getSource());
    }
  }

  @Override public final void mousePressed(MouseEvent e) {
    dragActive = true;
  }

  @Override public final void mouseReleased(MouseEvent e) {
    dragActive = false;
    fire(e.getSource());
  }

  @Override public void keyPressed(KeyEvent e) {
    shiftActive = (e.getModifiersEx() & KeyEvent.SHIFT_DOWN_MASK) != 0;
  }

  @Override public void keyReleased(KeyEvent e) {
    shiftActive = (e.getModifiersEx() & KeyEvent.SHIFT_DOWN_MASK) != 0;
    if (!shiftActive) {
      fire(e.getSource());
    }
  }

  @Override public void keyTyped(KeyEvent e) {
    /* empty */
  }

  private void fire(Object c) {
    if (c instanceof JTextComponent) {
      JTextComponent tc = (JTextComponent) c;
      Caret caret = tc.getCaret();
      int d = caret.getDot();
      int m = caret.getMark();
      if (d != m && (dot != d || mark != m)) {
        String str = tc.getSelectedText();
        if (Objects.nonNull(str)) {
          // StringSelection data = new StringSelection(str);
          // Toolkit tk = Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit();
          // tk.getSystemClipboard().setContents(data, data);
          tc.copy();
        }
      }
      dot = d;
      mark = m;
    }
  }
}

References

• Copy on select for JTextArea(Japanese)