[PD-dev] cut/copy/paste from text in canvas (i.e. obj, msg, comment, etc)

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

In g_editor.c there are canvas_cut(), canvas_copy(), and  
canvas_paste().  They do the obvious actions of cut/copy/paste on  
whole Pd chunks on Pd patches, but also they handle cut/copy/paste of  
the text that is inside of the msg, obj boxes and comments.  That's a  
different mechanism, that uses Tk's clipboard.

I was wondering if there was any reason why doing a copy when editing  
text needs to be sent to 'pd' at all.  Just a tk_textCopy should do  
it, no need to send a message to 'pd' to have it reply to tell Tcl to  
do something.  There is also tk_textCut and tk_textPaste which could  
be used, but they would then have to send a message to 'pd' to  
announce the change.

.hc


----------------------------------------------------------------------------

                                               http://at.or.at/hans/