Yep, I'm clearly getting fooled by select-paste, if that's indeed what it's called. But at least when I tried it, pasting from the "clipboard" appeared to paste instead from the selection. Or maybe I was doing it wrong...?
cheers Miller On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 07:10:31PM -0500, Mathieu Bouchard wrote: > On Fri, 30 Jan 2009, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote: > > >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? > > Most likely Miller is confused because in X11 there are two paste > mechanisms, which one could call select+paste and copy+paste. I just used > [clipboard get] with Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V on Linux and I don't recall > anything wrong with it. > > The select+paste system instead uses Button-2 (middle-click or thumb-click > or wheel-click depending on which mouse) to paste directly from the > selection instead of from the clipboard, because then there's no real > clipboard in that system. > > Right? > > _ _ __ ___ _____ ________ _____________ _____________________ ... > | Mathieu Bouchard - t?l:+1.514.383.3801, Montr?al, Qu?bec > _______________________________________________ > Pd-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-dev _______________________________________________ Pd-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-dev
