Clipboard facility for Panel/Canvas(ONLY AWT 1.1)

Hi,

I want some help on awt1.1. My project requires a component simillar to textarea with formating features (like setting bold, italic, color). I have taken a canvas (take a panel) and painted on it using drawString. I was succesful until this, now i want to provide the clipboard facility to that component. how can i.

i.e., user should be able to select text that was painted on a panel using drawString on a image, and also provide clipboard facility. But using ONLY awt1.1

Thanx,
Murthy.

Regards,
Murthy.