Re: [Pgui-devel] Clipboard

2002-09-26 Thread Chuck Groom
> > 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. > > The X system looks like the simplest thing to implement in picogui- it's the >applica

Re: [Pgui-devel] Clipboard

2002-09-26 Thread Micah Dowty
On Thu, Sep 26, 2002 at 10:29:49AM -0700, Chuck Groom wrote: > 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

Re: [Pgui-devel] Clipboard

2002-09-26 Thread Chuck Groom
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 G

Re: [Pgui-devel] Clipboard

2002-09-26 Thread Micah Dowty
On Thu, Sep 26, 2002 at 01:41:09PM -0300, Lalo Martins wrote: > On Thu, Sep 26, 2002 at 05:37:36AM -0600, Micah Dowty wrote: > > IMHO the biggest decision to be made in implementing clipboard support is how > > to allow applications to exchange clipboard data in different formats. This > > will de

Re: [Pgui-devel] Clipboard

2002-09-26 Thread Lalo Martins
On Thu, Sep 26, 2002 at 05:37:36AM -0600, Micah Dowty wrote: > IMHO the biggest decision to be made in implementing clipboard support is how > to allow applications to exchange clipboard data in different formats. This > will determine how the data is stored. I'm not very familiar with the > clipb

Re: [Pgui-devel] Clipboard

2002-09-26 Thread Micah Dowty
IMHO the biggest decision to be made in implementing clipboard support is how to allow applications to exchange clipboard data in different formats. This will determine how the data is stored. I'm not very familiar with the clipboard mechanisms in other GUIs, so please feel free to add extra ideas

[Pgui-devel] Clipboard

2002-09-26 Thread Philippe Ney
Hi all, As suggested by Micah, we have to discuss about clipboard management. A first clipboard implementation in PicoGUI is the one done by Chuck Groom in his textedit widget. Which could be used with the textedit_branch server and the apps/textedit/ application. It provide selected text throu