09-10-2008
Hmm... yes, unfortunately I think there are multiple clipboard standards for X applications... the standard X way was the way you describe where you highlight text causing it to be automatically "copied", and middle-click to paste. Then some apps have an Edit menu with the Windows-style copy and paste options, and in some cases they seem to share the X clipboard, and in some cases they use a separate one.
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dwtcopyfromclipboard
DwtCopyFromClipboard(3Dwt) DwtCopyFromClipboard(3Dwt)
Name
DwtCopyFromClipboard - Retrieves a data item from the clipboard.
Syntax
int DwtCopyFromClipboard(display, window, format_name,
buffer, length,
num_bytes, private_id)
Display *display;
Window window;
char *format_name;
char *buffer;
unsigned long length;
unsigned long *num_bytes;
int *private_id;
Arguments
display Specifies a pointer to the Display structure that was returned in a previous call to XOpenDisplay. For information on XOpenDis-
play and the Display structure, see the Guide to the Xlib Library: C Language Binding.
window Specifies the window ID that relates the application window to the clipboard. The same application instance should pass the same
window ID to each clipboard function that it calls.
format_name
Specifies the name of a format in which the data is stored on the clipboard.
buffer Specifies the buffer to which the application wants the clipboard to copy the data.
length Specifies the length of the application buffer.
num_bytes Specifies the number of bytes of data copied into the application buffer.
private_id
Specifies the private data stored with the data item by the application that placed the data item on the clipboard. If the
application did not store private data with the data item, this argument returns zero.
Description
The DwtCopyFromClipboard function retrieves the current next-paste item from clipboard storage.
DwtCopyFromClipboard returns a warning under the following circumstances:
o The data needs to be truncated because the buffer length is too short
o The clipboard is locked
o There is no data on the clipboard
Return Values
This function returns one of these status return constants:
ClipboardSuccess All data on the clipboard
has been copied success-
fully. A successful copy
can be a one-time opera-
tion using DwtCopyFrom-
Clipboard alone, or an
incremental operation
using multiple calls to
DwtCopyFromClipboard
between calls to Dwt-
StartCopyFromClipboard
and DwtEndCopyFromClip-
board.
ClipboardLocked The function failed
because the clipboard was
locked by another appli-
cation. The application
can continue to call the
function with the same
parameters until the
clipboard is unlocked.
Optionally, the applica-
tion can ask if the user
wants to keep trying or
to give up on the opera-
tion.
ClipboardTruncate If using DwtCopyFromClip-
board alone, the data
returned is truncated
because the user did not
provide a buffer that was
large enough to hold the
data. If using multiple
calls to DwtCopyFromClip-
board in between calls to
DwtStartCopyFromClipboard
and DwtEndCopyFromClip-
board, more data in the
requested format remains
to be copied from the
clipboard.
ClipboardNoData The function could not
find data on the clip-
board corresponding to
the format requested.
This could occur because:(1) the clipboard is
empty; (2) there is data
on the clipboard but not
in the requested format;
and(3) the data in the
requested format was
passed by name and is no
longer available.
See Also
DwtStartCopyFromClipboard(3Dwt), DwtEndCopyFromClipboard(3Dwt)
Guide to the XUI Toolkit: C Language Binding
Guide to the XUI Toolkit Intrinsics: C Language Binding
DwtCopyFromClipboard(3Dwt)