API for clipboard-oriented copy/paste services that are customizable for
metamodel-specific semantics. For invocation of the copy/paste functionality,
see {@link org.eclipse.gmf.runtime.emf.clipboard.core.ClipboardUtil}.
Package Specification
The primary mechanism for customization of a meta-model's copy/paste requirements
is the {@link org.eclipse.gmf.runtime.emf.clipboard.core.IClipboardSupport}
interface. Where this interface is not sufficient to control copy/paste
behaviour, the specialization of the following classes is permitted to define
custom copy and paste operations:
- {@link org.eclipse.gmf.runtime.emf.clipboard.core.OverrideCopyOperation}:
for special copying behaviour. This class inherits a number of useful
operations from the
{@link org.eclipse.gmf.runtime.emf.clipboard.core.CopyOperation} class to
find out about the objects that the user selected for copying, additional
objects required my the
IClipboardSupport
, and the
relationships between them. It also has methods for adding elements to be
copied
- {@link org.eclipse.gmf.runtime.emf.clipboard.core.OverridePasteChildOperation}:
for special pasting behaviour. This class inherits a wealth of useful
operations from the
{@link org.eclipse.gmf.runtime.emf.clipboard.core.PasteChildOperation} class to
find out about the objects that the user selected for copying, additional
objects required my the
IClipboardSupport
, and the
relationships between them. It also has methods do find which elements have
failed to paste, to paste additional elements (including handling paste
collisions), etc.
@see org.eclipse.gmf.runtime.emf.clipboard.core.ClipboardUtil#copyElementsToString
@see org.eclipse.gmf.runtime.emf.clipboard.core.ClipboardUtil#pasteElementsFromString
@see org.eclipse.gmf.runtime.emf.clipboard.core.ClipboardUtil#createClipboardSupport