Copy BufferedImage to clipboard

How do I store a BufferedI开发者_运维知识库mage into the system clipboard?

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Here is working code taken from here tested successfully

package org.life.java.so.questions;

/**
 * @author Jigar
 */
import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.datatransfer.*;
import java.awt.image.*;
import java.io.*;

public class CopyImagetoClipBoard implements ClipboardOwner {
    public CopyImagetoClipBoard() {
        try {
            Robot robot = new Robot();
            Dimension screenSize  = Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().getScreenSize();
            Rectangle screen = new Rectangle( screenSize );
            BufferedImage i = robot.createScreenCapture( screen );
            TransferableImage trans = new TransferableImage( i );
            Clipboard c = Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().getSystemClipboard();
            c.setContents( trans, this );
        }
        catch ( AWTException x ) {
            x.printStackTrace();
            System.exit( 1 );
        }
    }

    public static void main( String[] arg ) {
        CopyImagetoClipBoard ci = new CopyImagetoClipBoard();
    }

    public void lostOwnership( Clipboard clip, Transferable trans ) {
        System.out.println( "Lost Clipboard Ownership" );
    }

    private class TransferableImage implements Transferable {

        Image i;

        public TransferableImage( Image i ) {
            this.i = i;
        }

        public Object getTransferData( DataFlavor flavor )
        throws UnsupportedFlavorException, IOException {
            if ( flavor.equals( DataFlavor.imageFlavor ) && i != null ) {
                return i;
            }
            else {
                throw new UnsupportedFlavorException( flavor );
            }
        }

        public DataFlavor[] getTransferDataFlavors() {
            DataFlavor[] flavors = new DataFlavor[ 1 ];
            flavors[ 0 ] = DataFlavor.imageFlavor;
            return flavors;
        }

        public boolean isDataFlavorSupported( DataFlavor flavor ) {
            DataFlavor[] flavors = getTransferDataFlavors();
            for ( int i = 0; i < flavors.length; i++ ) {
                if ( flavor.equals( flavors[ i ] ) ) {
                    return true;
                }
            }

            return false;
        }
    }
}

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Jigar's code does indeed store a BufferedImage into the clipboard, although to be specific, it puts a screen-capture of the entire screen into the clipboard.

This may or may not be what you were after. In case you wanted to copy your own specific BufferedImage, in order to accomplish this, I replaced the constructor from Jigar's example with a copyImage() method.

public class CopyImagetoClipBoard implements ClipboardOwner
{
    public void copyImage(BufferedImage bi)
    {
        TransferableImage trans = new TransferableImage( bi );
        Clipboard c = Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().getSystemClipboard();
        c.setContents( trans, this );
    }

Remove the main() method within his class too.

You can then copy your BufferedImage with code such as this:

    BufferedImage bim;
    // set bim to your desired BufferedImage content
    // ...
    CopyImagetoClipBoard ci = new CopyImagetoClipBoard();
    ci.copyImage(bim);

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as a static accessable util, a modified version of RAnders00

import java.awt.Image;
import java.awt.Toolkit;
import java.awt.datatransfer.Clipboard;
import java.awt.datatransfer.ClipboardOwner;
import java.awt.datatransfer.DataFlavor;
import java.awt.datatransfer.Transferable;
import java.awt.datatransfer.UnsupportedFlavorException;
import java.awt.image.BufferedImage;
import java.io.IOException;

public class ClipboardUtil {
    private static final Clipboard c = Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().getSystemClipboard();
    private static final ClipboardOwner owner = new Owner();
    
    
    public static void copy(BufferedImage img) {
        copy(new TransferableImage(img));
    }
    public static void copy(Transferable trans) {
        c.setContents(trans, owner);
    }
}
class Owner implements ClipboardOwner {

    @Override
    public void lostOwnership(Clipboard arg0, Transferable arg1) {
        System.out.println( "Lost Clipboard Ownership" );
    }
    
}
class TransferableImage implements Transferable {

    Image i;

    public TransferableImage( Image i ) {
        this.i = i;
    }

    public Object getTransferData( DataFlavor flavor )
    throws UnsupportedFlavorException, IOException {
        if ( flavor.equals( DataFlavor.imageFlavor ) && i != null ) {
            return i;
        }
        else {
            throw new UnsupportedFlavorException( flavor );
        }
    }

    public DataFlavor[] getTransferDataFlavors() {
        DataFlavor[] flavors = new DataFlavor[ 1 ];
        flavors[ 0 ] = DataFlavor.imageFlavor;
        return flavors;
    }

    public boolean isDataFlavorSupported( DataFlavor flavor ) {
        DataFlavor[] flavors = getTransferDataFlavors();
        for ( int i = 0; i < flavors.length; i++ ) {
            if ( flavor.equals( flavors[ i ] ) ) {
                return true;
            }
        }

        return false;
    }
}

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A bit more minimized/modernized version of the static utility version by @ope for Java 17.

import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.datatransfer.Clipboard;
import java.awt.datatransfer.DataFlavor;
import java.awt.datatransfer.Transferable;
import java.awt.datatransfer.UnsupportedFlavorException;
import java.awt.image.BufferedImage;

public class ClipboardUtil {
    
    private static final Clipboard clipboard = Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().getSystemClipboard();
    
    public static void copyToClipboard(BufferedImage img) {
        clipboard.setContents(new TransferableImage(img), null);
    }
    
    private record TransferableImage(Image i) implements Transferable {
        
        @Override
        public Object getTransferData(DataFlavor flavor)
                throws UnsupportedFlavorException {
            if (flavor.equals(DataFlavor.imageFlavor) && i != null) {
                return i;
            } else {
                throw new UnsupportedFlavorException(flavor);
            }
        }
        
        @Override
        public DataFlavor[] getTransferDataFlavors() {
            DataFlavor[] flavors = new DataFlavor[1];
            flavors[0] = DataFlavor.imageFlavor;
            return flavors;
        }
        
        @Override
        public boolean isDataFlavorSupported(DataFlavor flavor) {
            DataFlavor[] flavors = getTransferDataFlavors();
            for (DataFlavor dataFlavor : flavors) {
                if (flavor.equals(dataFlavor)) {
                    return true;
                }
            }
            return false;
        }
    }
}