[PD-dev] [clipboard get] vs. custom X11 code

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

I am looking at the copy/paste mechanism and I noticed that for some  
reason, on X11 (i.e. GNU/Linux), there is different code for getting  
the info to paste.  There is this comment:

             /* in X windows the selection already went to the
             clipboard when it was made; here we "copy" it to our own  
buffer
             as well, because, annoyingly, the clipboard will usually be
             destroyed by the time the user asks to "paste". */

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?

.hc


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