Re: GTK clipboard on OS X

[Olivier Guilyardi <ml xung org>]

On 07/18/2009 05:01 AM, Allin Cottrell wrote:
> In some contexts my GTK app offers the user the opportunity to
> copy chunks of output to the clipboard as RTF.  This is primarily
> intended for use on MS Windows, but it also works fine for pasting
> into (e.g.) an OpenOffice text document on Linux.  The chunk is
> advertised via the relevant GtkTargetEntry as "application/rtf".
> 
> But this doesn't work on OS X (using GTK 2.14.N under X11).  All
> paste targets, even ones that are certainly RTF-aware such as
> OpenOffice, seem to ignore application/rtf and request plain text,
> so that if pasting succeeds at all, it is just a raw dump of the
> RTF "code".
> 
> If this a known issue of GTK/X11 on the Mac?  Is there a
> workaround?  Or does it look as if I'm doing something wrong?
> Thanks.

I can't tell about X11 but the clipboard seems to work ok between my GTK-OSX
2.16 app and native OSX software, although GtkEntry expects Ctrl+* instead of
Cmd+* shortcuts.

-- 
  Olivier