[PD-dev] X paste fix breaks copy-paste within Pd

Hans-Christoph Steiner hans at at.or.at
Wed Aug 24 18:44:47 CEST 2011


Hey Miller,

I was just checking out your recent commits.  The X-paste fix does
indeed fix selection click-pasting, but it breaks regular old
copy-pasting with in Pd.  For example:

1. make an object box with "foo" in it
2. select "foo" and hit Ctrl-C or Edit->Copy
3. create a blank object box
4. hit Ctrl-V or Edit->Paste

Nothing gets pasted.  The problem lies in the difference between Tcl's
"clipboard" and "selection"; clipboard is Ctrl-C/Ctrl-V and selection is
X-paste.  Your commit converted [clipboard get] to [selection get].  I
think the solution is to revert the X-paste commit and then add separate
logic for [selection get] to get X-pasting working.

.hc





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