Best way to prevent Ctrl+c on JTextArea

Question

I want to prevent copying the text from the JTextArea. What is the best approach to do that? I found a KeyListner solution but it didn't seemed best. I don't want to use a key listner for that. Is there a shortcut method/way that I can use?

Answer 1

Not tested, but I would simply override copy() and cut():

@Override
public void copy() {
    // does nothing
}

@Override
public void cut() {
    // does nothing
}

Looking at the source code, it should work, since that's what JPasswordField does to prevent cutting/copying.