[Re: [lazarus] Components/Code needed]]

[Jeff Wormsley]

Michal, sorry about this, but be careful when replying to my emails to the list.  It is a pain, but something in my mail package causes the list to chuck out my mails unless my ReplyTo is set, and that means that your replies go to my email address instead of the list if you don't change it.

Jeff.


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On 8/11/99, at 10:39 PM, Michal Bukovjan wrote: 

>In GTK it is a bunch of functions in GtkEditable, so it should be easy to
>implement those CutToClipboard, PasteFromClipboard and CopyToClipboard
>things.
>
>Thinking about the TClipboard object, though, one has to dwelve into GDK, the
>clipboard is an internal GdkAtom called CLIPBOARD, and while it could be
>possible to copy some code from GtkEditable, the concepts of these atoms is
>not that much clear to me (except that it deals with X). And in GtkEditable I
>can see thay set the clipboard to be the owner of the selection ... Wow. I'm
>lost.
>
>Anyone understands this concept to shed a light? Or knows about some decent
>docs? The GDK reference is not very usable :-(
>
>Michal Bukovjan
>
>"Jeff Wormsley" <daworm at cdc.net> wrote:
>> On 8/11/99, at 9:37 PM, Michal Bukovjan wrote: 
>> 
>> >But I am not sure GTK embraces such thing. I think that I'll have to deal
>with
>> >X directly, there might be some clipboard support in GLib, though.
>> 
>> Somehow it is done in the Gnome desktop.  At least I can cut from GNotepad
>and paste into Netscape, anyway...
>> 
>> Jeff.
>>