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

[Miller Puckette]

Well, it didn't work for me when I tried it - if you select text in
one object, hit "copy", then select text in another intending to paste
over it -- bingo, X does a new "copy".  ouch.

cheers
Miller




On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 06:54:15PM -0500, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
> 
> 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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