Well, it didn't work for me when I tried it - if you select text in one object, hit "copy", then select text in another intending to paste over it -- bingo, X does a new "copy". ouch.
cheers Miller On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 06:54:15PM -0500, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote: > > I am looking at the copy/paste mechanism and I noticed that for some > reason, on X11 (i.e. GNU/Linux), there is different code for getting > the info to paste. There is this comment: > > /* in X windows the selection already went to the > clipboard when it was made; here we "copy" it to our own > buffer > as well, because, annoyingly, the clipboard will usually be > destroyed by the time the user asks to "paste". */ > > On Win32 and Mac OS X, pd gets the text from Tcl/Tk using [clipboard > get]. It would make things cleaner if everything used the same code. > Is there any reason not to make X11 get the data from Tk, if possible? > > .hc > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Computer science is no more related to the computer than astronomy is > related to the telescope. -Edsger Dykstra > > > > _______________________________________________ > Pd-dev mailing list > Pd-dev@iem.at > http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-dev _______________________________________________ Pd-dev mailing list Pd-dev@iem.at http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-dev