Re: GooCanvas : Clipboard copy

[Damon Chaplin <damon karuna eclipse co uk>]

On Sun, 2008-11-30 at 20:04 +0100, Dupuit Cyril wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am using GooCanvas for an application that uses clipboard copy. I have
> found a code that copy the canvas directly to the clipboard (I am sorry,
> I have lost the original link to the writer of this code...).
> 
> This code doesn't show the real canvas content. I think that all colors
> are drawn on a black sheet (the black text coming from the canvas is
> merged with the black backgound on the clipboard).
> 
> Let me show you your example.
> 
> First (a screenshot of widgets-demo.jpg).

Also, note that widgets can't be rendered to an offscreen pixmap, so you
won't be able to copy widgets to the clipboard.

I think someone did some work on this in GTK+ a while back, but I'm not
sure if it was ever added to GTK+.

Damon