Fwd: C & P event from x

[Arx Henrique <arxcruz gmail com>]

thanks a lot
i'll read more about clipboard :)

On 6/14/05, Muthiah Annamalai <dearestchum yahoo co in> wrote:
> Hello!
>
> --- Arx Henrique <arxcruz gmail com> wrote:
> > i'm newbie in gtk, and i'm making a simple program
>
> Welcome to GTK!
> Explore documents at
>
> 1. Www.gtk.org/ | tutorials | articles | code
> 2. $ gtk-demo & | A simple & powerful demo of GTK+
> 3. http://developer.gnome.org | GTK+ & GNOME
> programming
> 4. http://gnomefiles.org | free & non-free GTK+
> programs.
>
> > how can i get copy and paste event from x in my gtk
> > app ?
>
> Well I think youre using the 'entry' widget or
> 'TextView' for copy/pasting from/to your app.
>
> Now you need to share data like this with other apps
> using a clipboard.
>
> So look at gtkclipboard.h in your
> /usr/include/gtk-2.0/gtk/ folder.
>
> Process is like this:
>
> 1: When you app starts, get access to a clipboard from
> the X server using:
>
>  GtkClipboard *gtk_clipboard_get_for_display
>       (GdkDisplay   *display, GdkAtom
> selection);
>
>  display can be got like
> GdkDisplay *gdk_display_get_default (void);
>
> For atom choose one from gdkselection.h, its basically
> the type of clipboard you want to save to.
>
>
> 2: If user selects some text in your app, and chooses
> paste,  use this function to set clipboard contents.
>
> void     gtk_clipboard_set_text
>    (GtkClipboard *clipboard,
>      const gchar   *text, gint   len);
>
> 3: If you want text from the user [paste], then
> request
> text from the clipboard using,
>
> void gtk_clipboard_request_text
>         (GtkClipboard  *clipboard,
> GtkClipboardTextReceivedFunc callback,
>          gpointer  user_data);
>
> passing it a callback. Store the data, in some cache,
> and only if user presses paste, copy the text to the
> text buffer.
>
> This is preliminary help, might not work all the time,
> but if youre getting direction, then it helps.
>
> For more help see  /gtk+/gtk/gtktextbuffer.c
>
> Thanks
> Muthu.
>
>
>
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