Thanks a lot, really appreciate your explanation. You reassured me that my transition to qt5 I started a week ago is a choice in the right direction. When I read the qt 5 documentation it's like reading poetry.
On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 6:26 PM, Kjell Ahlstedt <[email protected] > wrote: > Most of the reference documentation of gtkmm is copied from gtk+. The > documentation of Gtk::Clipboard::set_can_store() is copied from > gtk_clipboard_set_can_store(). It says *This value is reset when the > clipboard owner changes*. That's cryptic. It means that your first call > to Gtk::Clipboard::get() cancels the effect of set_can_store(). (Perhaps > all calls to get() cancel the effect of set_can_store(), I'm not sure.) > > It would be possible to add some less cryptic documentation to > Gtk::Clipboard::set_can_store(), but it would be much better to have it > added to the description of gtk_clipboard_set_can_store() in gtk+, and then > copied to gtkmm. > > Changing the unintuitive dependency between set() and set_can_store() > might not be feasible. All running applications share the same clipboard. > That imposes some restrictions on what can be done. If it's possible to > change the dependency, it must be done in gtk+. > > Kjell > > 2013-07-26 13:19, Jiergir Ogoerg skrev: > > While trying to provide you an example I found out by accident what's > the problem: you must call clipboard->set_can_store() _after_ > clipboard->set(targets, get_slot, clear_slot), which is not mentioned in > the documentation and to me is a bug. > > Now that I changed from: > Glib::RefPtr<Gtk::Clipboard> clipboard = Gtk::Clipboard::get(); > clipboard->set_can_store(); > clipboard->set(targets, slot_get, slot_clear); > > to: > Glib::RefPtr<Gtk::Clipboard> clipboard = Gtk::Clipboard::get(); > clipboard->set(targets, slot_get, slot_clear); > clipboard->set_can_store(); > > it works. Please either mention this in the gtkmm documentation, or > (which is more appropriate) make the clipboard saving data not depend on > this obscure and counter intuitive requirement. > > >
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