Re: Storing a pointer in Gtk::SelectionData

[Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>]

On Sat, 2008-04-26 at 14:48 +0200, Johannes Schmid wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> Probably a silly question, but how can I savely store a pointer to an
> object in a Gtk::SelectionData. I guess I have to use
> 
> Gtk::SelectionData::set (int format, guint8* data, int length)
> 
> somehow but I cannot figure out how to store a pointer there in a
> portable and save way. I only want to use the SelectionData within one
> application (no cross application drag & drop).

GINT_TO_POINTER() and GPOINTER_TO_INT() might be useful.

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