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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting menu selections Post 302293649 by cfajohnson on Tuesday 3rd of March 2009 02:37:23 PM
Old 03-03-2009
Code:
printf "%s\n" "MENU" "  1. qwerty" "  2. uiop" "  3. asdf" "  4. ghjkl"
printf "%s: " "Your choice (separate multiple selections with a comma)"

read selection

selection=$selection,
while [ -n "$selection" ]
do
   opt=${selection%%,*}
   echo "You selected: $opt"
   selection=${selection#*,}
done

 

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xcb_set_selection_owner(3)					   XCB Requests 					xcb_set_selection_owner(3)

NAME
xcb_set_selection_owner - Sets the owner of a selection SYNOPSIS
#include <xcb/xproto.h> Request function xcb_void_cookie_t xcb_set_selection_owner(xcb_connection_t *conn, xcb_window_t owner, xcb_atom_t selection, xcb_timestamp_t time); REQUEST ARGUMENTS
conn The XCB connection to X11. owner The new owner of the selection. The special value XCB_NONE means that the selection will have no owner. selection The selection. time Timestamp to avoid race conditions when running X over the network. The selection will not be changed if time is earlier than the current last-change time of the selection or is later than the cur- rent X server time. Otherwise, the last-change time is set to the specified time. The special value XCB_CURRENT_TIME will be replaced with the current server time. DESCRIPTION
Makes window the owner of the selection selection and updates the last-change time of the specified selection. TODO: briefly explain what a selection is. RETURN VALUE
Returns an xcb_void_cookie_t. Errors (if any) have to be handled in the event loop. If you want to handle errors directly with xcb_request_check instead, use xcb_set_selection_owner_checked. See xcb-requests(3) for details. ERRORS
xcb_atom_error_t selection does not refer to a valid atom. SEE ALSO
xcb-requests(3), xcb_set_selection_owner(3) AUTHOR
Generated from xproto.xml. Contact xcb@lists.freedesktop.org for corrections and improvements. XCB
2014-06-10 xcb_set_selection_owner(3)
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