Re: Building multiple backends on on same system

[John Ralls <jralls ceridwen us>]

On Dec 10, 2010, at 2:21 PM, Matthias Clasen wrote:

> On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 3:50 PM, John Ralls <jralls ceridwen us> wrote:
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>> GdkSelection is a wrapper around the X11 selection functions. It's not used by Gtk, which has its own higher-level selection object which ties into GtkClipboard and GtkDnd... which is why almost nobody knows about GdkSelection any more. I only know about it only because I implemented GtkSelection for quartz last summer.
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>> It probably should  be dropped completely, but if that's too radical, by all means banish it to the X11 backend.
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> That is not really true.
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> $ grep -l gdk_selection *.c
> gtkdnd.c
> gtkselection.c
> gtktextbuffer.c

Sorry, you're right. I incorrectly confounded Kris's gtkdnd and my gtkselection implementations for quartz with the main one.

GtkSelection is implemented in terms of GdkSelection -- otherwise I wouldn't have had to redo it for quartz. 

Regards,
John Ralls