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

[Miller Puckette]

Yep, I'm clearly getting fooled by select-paste, if that's indeed
what it's called.  But at least when I tried it, pasting from the
"clipboard" appeared to paste instead from the selection.  Or maybe
I was doing it wrong...?

cheers
Miller

On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 07:10:31PM -0500, Mathieu Bouchard wrote:
> On Fri, 30 Jan 2009, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
> 
> >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?
> 
> Most likely Miller is confused because in X11 there are two paste 
> mechanisms, which one could call select+paste and copy+paste. I just used 
> [clipboard get] with Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V on Linux and I don't recall 
> anything wrong with it.
> 
> The select+paste system instead uses Button-2 (middle-click or thumb-click 
> or wheel-click depending on which mouse) to paste directly from the 
> selection instead of from the clipboard, because then there's no real 
> clipboard in that system.
> 
> Right?
> 
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