Re: [gtk-list] How to handle slections with gdk

["José Miguel R. Barrientos" <jmiguel ceselsa es>]

Stefan Ondrejicka wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I'am writing simple program, which uses only gdk for mainpulating
> selections. I want to set gdk window to own selection (text only). There
> are this events to handle :
> 
> GDK_SELECTION_CLEAR - this means, that I loose selection (right ?)
> 
> GDK_SELECTION_REQUEST - I own selection, and someone want to retrieve it
>         (but I don't know how to send the selection)
> 
> GDK_SELECTION_NOTIFY - I mean that, this is used to notify, that I'v get
>         requested selection (right ?)
> 
> with function gdk_selection_owner_set() I set the window to own selection
> 
> with gdk_selection_owner_get() I will get the actual owner of selection
> should i send GDK_SELECTION_CLEAR to it before using
> gdk_selection_owner_set() ? If so how ?
> 
> I am reading gtkselection.c & gtkeditable.c , but I am not able to
> understand it.
> 
> Is here anyone who have any example or want to explaint this.



You can take a look on "testselection.c" which came with the sources of Gtk...