I think here's the explanation: "X distinguishes the PRIMARY selection (typically <ButtonPress-2>) from the CLIPBOARD selection (used for explicit "Cut", "Copy", and "Paste")."
And: http://wiki.tcl.tk/1217 .hc On Jan 30, 2009, at 9:39 PM, Miller Puckette wrote: > 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ¡El pueblo unido jamás será vencido! _______________________________________________ Pd-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-dev
