Am 30.06.2010 um 19:57 schrieb Matthew Talbert: >> Karl, Xiphos's special copy setup is just that, special. Either way, no need >> to go berserk about it. Even if another system is to blame it is still a >> good idea to prove it to be such instead of "shooting the messenger" as it >> were. >> -Wes > > This has been explained before in this thread, but the way copy/paste > works is that ^C merely signifies to the clipboard that there is data > available. It does not actually "copy" the data. When you hit ^V, > *then* the receiving application gets a pointer to the data, and > interprets it however it likes (though there are hints to tell it what > sort of data it is). So, no data is transferred until the receiving > application does it. The receiving application bears the > responsibility of interpreting the data correctly, except that the > original app is supposed to mark what kind of data it is. That is > obviously working, as the data gets interpreted correctly by Word, > Chrome, even Internet Explorer correctly, just not Firefox (when > pasting into Facebook).
Is it GTK that handles this copy/paste process? In Cocoa it is possible to also copy the data to the clipboard. Of course this only makes sense for smaller amounts of data. Manfred _______________________________________________ sword-devel mailing list: sword-devel@crosswire.org http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel Instructions to unsubscribe/change your settings at above page
