----- Original Message ----- From: "Harold L Hunt II" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "G O Economou" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, January 30, 2003 1:01 PM Subject: Re: If you were writing a Windows and X clipboard integration manager...
> Oh, but I have already release something: > http://xfree86.cygwin.com/devel/xwinclip/changelog.html > > In fact, I have made 8 releases :) I originally copied text from > CUT_BUFFER0, which worked fine for me. As soon as I released this > people started complaining about what it did not do (namely, it didn't > handle non-U.S. text). > > The way that xwinclip copies text was then rewritten to work with > non-U.S. text, which introduced the problem of unhighlighting the > selected text. > > Most recently we integrated the xwinclip functionality into a seperate > thread in the X Server (XWin.exe) process, which works quite well: > http://xfree86.cygwin.com/devel/shadow/changelog.html (see Test73) > > I came up with the idea of monitoring CUT_BUFFER0 for changes to let me > know to copy data from CLIPBOARD only last week. So, I have not > implemented that idea yet and I wanted to see if there were other > options I should explore before moving down that path (since most ideas > I have had do have some drawbacks that I did not anticipate). > > Thanks for your input, > > Harold > > G O Economou wrote: > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Harold L Hunt II" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: "xfree86-devel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Sent: Thursday, January 30, 2003 10:59 AM > > Subject: If you were writing a Windows and X clipboard integration > > manager... > > > > > > > >>...how would you do it, in 150 words or less? > >> > >>Seriously, I have been working on this for over a year and I would love to > >>hear some of the ideas that people have because I am completely stumped on > >>how to make such a clipboard manager work properly. > >> > >>It would be nice if someone responded this time... > >> > >> > >>Harold Hunt > >>Cygwin/XFree86 > >> > > > > > > Harold you are making this issue unnecessarily complicated. You are getting > > lost in the forest for the trees. .. ONe instead of caring about non-US > > users, the few out there that exist, work first on getting something going. > > Then once that is working work on refining > > the process. You cannot make it work with every app out there. MS does not > > do that either. There are too many non-compliant progams written by > > organgutans out there to hit them all. > > Make yours compliant what you consider the major issues (Browsers, Mail > > Managers). Put something out otherwise you marginalise yourself. Basic IT > > 101 but very non CS thinking. > > > > Georgina > > > > > > Yes, there are at least 3 clipboard/cut-buffer mechanisms. We > > originally set out to watch for CUT_BUFFER0 to change, at which point we > > would copy it to the Windows clipboard. That seemed fine, except that > > non-U.S. users screamed bloody murder because CUT_BUFFERs do not let you > > get non ascii/latin1 encoded text. Also, some users claim that not all > > X applications paste data to CUT_BUFFER0. > > > _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel
