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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting newb shell question Post 11857 by LivinFree on Thursday 13th of December 2001 03:56:43 AM
Old 12-13-2001
The first think I'm seeing is the while statement at the top...

selection=
while [ $selection -ne9 ]

First one:
I always use quotes - to be safe.
And check your spacing...
while [ "$selection" -ne "9" ]

Also though, you just defined $selection as being nothing... it would look like this when expanded:

while [ -ne 9 ]

Try:
selection=0
while [ "$selection" -ne "9" ]

Also, it'll make it cleaner to use a "case" statement, instead of a bunch of "if"s...

case $selection in
1) do_something ;;
2) do_something_else ;;
*) default_at_end ;;
esac

Hope that gets you back on the right track...
 

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Tk_OwnSelection(3tk)					       Tk Library Procedures					      Tk_OwnSelection(3tk)

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NAME
Tk_OwnSelection - make a window the owner of the primary selection SYNOPSIS
#include <tk.h> Tk_OwnSelection(tkwin, selection, proc, clientData) ARGUMENTS
Tk_Window tkwin (in) Window that is to become new selection owner. Atom selection (in) The name of the selection to be owned, such as XA_PRIMARY. Tk_LostSelProc *proc (in) Procedure to invoke when tkwin loses selection ownership later. ClientData clientData (in) Arbitrary one-word value to pass to proc. _________________________________________________________________ DESCRIPTION
Tk_OwnSelection arranges for tkwin to become the new owner of the selection specified by the atom selection. After this call completes, future requests for the selection will be directed to handlers created for tkwin using Tk_CreateSelHandler. When tkwin eventually loses the selection ownership, proc will be invoked so that the window can clean itself up (e.g. by unhighlighting the selection). Proc should have arguments and result that match the type Tk_LostSelProc: typedef void Tk_LostSelProc(ClientData clientData); The clientData parameter to proc is a copy of the clientData argument given to Tk_OwnSelection, and is usually a pointer to a data struc- ture containing application-specific information about tkwin. KEYWORDS
own, selection owner Tk 4.0 Tk_OwnSelection(3tk)
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