Starting to make sense... (was GTK Selection non-sense)

[learfox furry ao net]

> Selections can be converted to different "targets".  From the tutorial:

Right, I've been doing some reviewing all night and it's starting to make
some sense.

What appears to be the `target' is really the type of content.
Replacing the type from atom to string, I was able to recieve strings
(will this work for binary as well?)


> "In the following example, we retrieve the special target "TARGETS", which
> is a list of all targets into which the selection can be converted."
>
> At the moment, this will show us what sort of things the selection can be
> converted into.  (gdk/gdktypes.h has a list of them under the GdkTarget
> enum, I think)
>
> "TARGETS", however, is probably not what you're looking for.  What you're
> looking for is the "STRING" target instead, which will give us the
> contents of the primary clipboard as a string.

Right, that's what I figured. Thanks for clearing it up! :)


> Let's change the example so that it does return the literal contents of
> the clipboard.  First, let's make changes to get_targets().  I'll rename
> it as 'trigger_selection_received()':
>
> void trigger_selection_received(GdkWidget* widget, gpointer data) {
>     static GdkAtom string_atom = GDK_NONE:
>     if (string_atom == GDK_NONE)
>         string_atom = gdk_atom_intern("STRING", FALSE);
>     gtk_selection_convert(widget, GDK_SELECTION_PRIMARY,
>                           string_atom, GDK_CURRENT_TIME);
> }

Right, now that works!!  But will that work for binary as well?
Or does the `selection' buffer must contain ASCII characters?

   GTK certainly has an obtuse way of naming this, I guess visually
if you selected something it would be coppied to the clipboard buffer
(like how xterm and gtk's text widgets work).

Calling them selections really threw me off and I didn't have a clue
gtk selections were ment for this.

   Btw, someone pointed out selections also have drag and drop
implmentations, could you give me some pointers on that if possable?

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