It's interesting to look at how different widget systems have approached
this. For starters, I'd suggest looking at:

http://doc.trolltech.com/3.0/qclipboard.html
http://gtk.org/tutorial/ch-managingselections.html

I think the QT example offers a slightly more fruitful starting point, 
since the GTK+ mechanism is wed to the X Windows system,
which I believe to be unnecessarily complicated w/r/t selections.

In addition to the questions of "how do we deal with data types" and 
"where is the data stored", I'd like to add the following to the fray:
  - Will drag-and-drop be incorporated into this mechanism?
  - What user concept of selection does PicoGUI adopt? The X-windows
    way of making any selected text available in a selection buffer,
    or the windows/mac os way of requiring explicit user cut/copy to 
    the clipboad?
  
-Chuck


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