Re: Clipboard improvements, II

[Hans Breuer <Hans Breuer org>]

At 05:19 25.05.04, John Ehresman wrote:
> James Henstridge wrote:
> > An image or vector diagram can be represented as binary data, so 
> > transferring it as a selection is no more difficult than transferring 
> > text.  It is just necessary for the two end points to agree on a target name.
>
> I think the question is whether there are standard image and vector 
> graphics formats on X11 that programs use to copy data via the 
> clipboard.  There are standard formats for image data under Windows, so if 
> there were standard formats for gtk programs, converters could be written
Exactly :-)


> (I'm less sure of what the vector format story is).

On windows this is WMF/EMF, on X this may be SVG some day ...

> It's similar to how text is handled -- gtk represents (most) text as utf8 
> and Windows NT uses 16bit wide characters so text is often converted from 
> one to the other when it is read from or written to the clipboard.
>
> > My point is that Mozilla uses the OLE clipboard, which is quite similar 
> > to the X clipboard
>
> The challenge is to integrate either the OLE clipboard or delayed 
> rendering using the lower level win32 clipboard api with the gtk 
> mainloop.  It can be done, but there hasn't been much need to do so. Maybe 
> there will be more interest once it's easier to write applications that 
> cut & paste pixmaps because they require more memory.

Thanks for rephrasing, this is exactly my point :-)

        Hans

> John

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