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

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

I think here's the explanation: "X distinguishes the PRIMARY selection  
(typically <ButtonPress-2>) from the CLIPBOARD selection (used for  
explicit "Cut", "Copy", and "Paste")."

And:
http://wiki.tcl.tk/1217

.hc

On Jan 30, 2009, at 9:39 PM, Miller Puckette wrote:

> 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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