[Lazarus] Synedit requesting strange format from clipboard

[Hans-Peter Diettrich]

Graeme Geldenhuys schrieb:

> It was reported in the MSEide mailing list that copying text from MSEide
> and trying to paste it into Lazarus Source Editor (synedit) doesn't work.
> Martin had a look at the issue and found the following.
> 
> Could anybody explain the strange text format requested by SynEdit?
> 
> ------------------------------------
> MSEide offers "UTF8_STRING", "COMPOUND_TEXT", "STRING" and "TEXT" (trunk
> 3560 has additionally "text/plain"), surprisingly Lazarus
> requests "Application/X-Laz-SynEdit-Tagged" which MSEgui can't provide.
> Copying from MSEide into Lazarus edit widgets works. Can you check why
> Lazarus requests "Application/X-Laz-SynEdit-Tagged" in source editor?
> -------------------------------------

When the request for a special format fails, a client should request a 
more common format, e.g. UTF8_STRING, then STRING or TEXT.

I wonder why this works on Windows, but not on your OS.

DoDi