On Thursday, 12 October 2006, at 20:26:42 (-0400), Mike Frysinger wrote: > we tried to look at the issue on irc quite some time ago ... beyond > me providing the actual X error (which i did), i really dont know > where to dig
The selection code starts with selection_check() at line 2374 of src/screen.c. The brunt of the X interaction happens in selection_fetch(), selection_copy_string(), selection_paste(), and selection_send() (line 2452 and down) and in src/events.c in handle_property_notify() (line 285). selection_send() is where Eterm responds to a selection request event (i.e., a "paste" from the clipboard). There's some weird voodoo in there, particularly involving i18n, that someone who actually uses multi-lingual capabilities (read: not me) might want to go over and verify. selection_paste() is how we paste either our own selection, or the primary/secondary/clipboard selection from some other application (Qt, Firefox, etc.), or a cut buffer (by fetching the root window property). Cases #1 and #3 are the easiest and the least prone to failure as they can be handled immediately. Case #2 is the most likely to fail because it requires sending a request for the selection to the other app and receiving the event at some point in the future to actually do the paste. As I and my fellow cynics would expect, case #2 is also the most common, most useful, and most likely culprit you're looking for with paste problems. Every time I look at the selection code, I want 2 things: (1) to cry, and (2) to rewrite it. Unfortunately the fear of breaking i18n always keeps me from doing action #2, which leads to more of action #1. Hope that helps you, or someone, who wants to dive deeper into this. :-) Michael -- Michael Jennings (a.k.a. KainX) http://www.kainx.org/ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> n + 1, Inc., http://www.nplus1.net/ Author, Eterm (www.eterm.org) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- "We both lie silently still in the dead of the night. Although we both lie close together, we feel miles apart inside. Was it something I said or something I did? Did my words not come out right?" -- Poison, "Every Rose Has Its Thorn" ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ enlightenment-devel mailing list enlightenment-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel
