Topic awaiting preservation: Placing images system clipboard - Java

I'm creating a Swing application, and I need to know how to place Images on the system clipboard.

I have been able to successfully paint to a BufferedImage object, and write an image file (.png or .jpg), but I'm not sure how to place an image on the clipboard.

I've written a sub-class of image that implements Transferable, but I'm still having some problems, my questions are:

What object should getTransferData() return? An Image object? The image's Raster? pixel array? And if so, what format should the array be? (There are several types in BufferedImage).

If I store my Transferable Image as MIME type .gif of .bmp or any other standard image format, what object should getTransterData() return? a Pixel array?

In what DataFlavor should it be? I've noticed if I cut image data from MS Paint to the clipboard, java recognizes it's contents as MIME type image/x-java-image, from Class Image. But placing Image objects on the clipboard has not seemed to do me any good.

Any insight into this matter would be greatly appreciated.

Well (maybe) this will help
http://developer.java.sun.com/developer/Books/GJ21AWT/ch20.pdf



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