Re: Copy-Paste operations

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

Philip Van Hoof <freax pandora be> writes:
> > > http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/gtk/gtk-selections.html
> > > http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.0/gtk/gtk-clipboards.html
>  
> > You are reading the GTK 2 docs, and using GTK 1.2.
>
> So how do I do the same in gtk 1.2 ? I guess the gtk-clipboard will be
> something for lets say next year (since everybody who will want to
> use the application will need gtk 2.0)
>
> I guess I will have to use gtk-selections but I dont have a clue how
> to use it. Is there a (simple) example for this? Basicly I want to
> get the data that is currently selected in X (primary). And on a later
> stage of the development of this app I also want to set this..

One solution is to just take the GtkClipboard source code, copy it
into your app, and use that. Probably a relatively simple solution.

Otherwise, I don't know of a great example, the GtkEditable widget
implementation is maybe helpful.

Havoc