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- NAME
- selection - Manipulate the X selection
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- SYNOPSIS
- selection _o_p_t_i_o_n ?_a_r_g _a_r_g ...?
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- DESCRIPTION
- This command provides a Tcl interface to the X selection
- mechanism and implements the full selection functionality
- described in the X Inter-Client Communication Conventions
- Manual (ICCCM), except that it supports only the primary
- selection.
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- The first argument to selection determines the format of the
- rest of the arguments and the behavior of the command. The
- following forms are currently supported:
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- selection clear _w_i_n_d_o_w
- If there is a selection anywhere on _w_i_n_d_o_w's display, |
- clear it so that no window owns the selection anymore. |
- Returns an empty string.
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- selection get ?_t_y_p_e?
- Retrieves the value of the primary selection and
- returns it as a result. Type specifies the form in
- which the selection is to be returned (the desired
- ``target'' for conversion, in ICCCM terminology), and
- should be an atom name such as STRING or FILE_NAME;
- see the Inter-Client Communication Conventions Manual
- for complete details. Type defaults to STRING. The
- selection owner may choose to return the selection in
- any of several different representation formats, such
- as STRING, ATOM, INTEGER, etc. (this format is dif-
- ferent than the selection type; see the ICCCM for all
- the confusing details). If the selection is returned
- in a non-string format, such as INTEGER or ATOM, the
- selection command converts it to string format as a
- collection of fields separated by spaces: atoms are
- converted to their textual names, and anything else is
- converted to hexadecimal integers.
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- selection handle _w_i_n_d_o_w _c_o_m_m_a_n_d ?_t_y_p_e? ?_f_o_r_m_a_t?
- Creates a handler for selection requests, such that
- _c_o_m_m_a_n_d will be executed whenever the primary selection
- is owned by _w_i_n_d_o_w and someone attempts to retrieve it
- in the form given by _t_y_p_e (e.g. _t_y_p_e is specified in
- the selection get command). _T_y_p_e defaults to STRING. |
- If _c_o_m_m_a_n_d is an empty string then any existing handler |
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- for _w_i_n_d_o_w and _t_y_p_e is removed.
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- When the selection is requested and _w_i_n_d_o_w is the
- selection owner and _t_y_p_e is the requested type, _c_o_m_m_a_n_d
- will be executed as a Tcl command with two additional
- numbers appended to it (with space separators). The
- two additional numbers are _o_f_f_s_e_t and _m_a_x_B_y_t_e_s: _o_f_f_s_e_t
- specifies a starting character position in the selec-
- tion and _m_a_x_B_y_t_e_s gives the maximum number of bytes to
- retrieve. The command should return a value consisting
- of at most _m_a_x_B_y_t_e_s of the selection, starting at posi-
- tion _o_f_f_s_e_t. For very large selections (larger than
- _m_a_x_B_y_t_e_s) the selection will be retrieved using several
- invocations of _c_o_m_m_a_n_d with increasing _o_f_f_s_e_t values.
- If _c_o_m_m_a_n_d returns a string whose length is less than
- _m_a_x_B_y_t_e_s, the return value is assumed to include all of
- the remainder of the selection; if the length of
- _c_o_m_m_a_n_d's result is equal to _m_a_x_B_y_t_e_s then _c_o_m_m_a_n_d will
- be invoked again, until it eventually returns a result
- shorter than _m_a_x_B_y_t_e_s. The value of _m_a_x_B_y_t_e_s will
- always be relatively large (thousands of bytes).
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- If _c_o_m_m_a_n_d returns an error then the selection
- retrieval is rejected just as if the selection didn't |
- exist at all.
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- The _f_o_r_m_a_t argument specifies the representation that
- should be used to transmit the selection to the reques-
- ter (the second column of Table 2 of the ICCCM), and
- defaults to STRING. If _f_o_r_m_a_t is STRING, the selection
- is transmitted as 8-bit ASCII characters (i.e. just in
- the form returned by _c_o_m_m_a_n_d). If _f_o_r_m_a_t is ATOM, then
- the return value from _c_o_m_m_a_n_d is divided into fields
- separated by white space; each field is converted to
- its atom value, and the 32-bit atom value is transmit-
- ted instead of the atom name. For any other _f_o_r_m_a_t,
- the return value from _c_o_m_m_a_n_d is divided into fields
- separated by white space and each field is converted to
- a 32-bit integer; an array of integers is transmitted
- to the selection requester.
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- The _f_o_r_m_a_t argument is needed only for compatibility
- with selection requesters that don't use Tk. If the Tk
- toolkit is being used to retrieve the selection then
- the value is converted back to a string at the request-
- ing end, so _f_o_r_m_a_t is irrelevant.
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- selection own ?_w_i_n_d_o_w? ?_c_o_m_m_a_n_d?
- If _w_i_n_d_o_w is specified, then it becomes the new selec- |
- tion owner and the command returns an empty string as |
- result. The existing owner, if any, is notified that |
- it has lost the selection. If _c_o_m_m_a_n_d is specified, it |
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- is a Tcl script to execute when some other window |
- claims ownership of the selection away from _w_i_n_d_o_w. If |
- neither _w_i_n_d_o_w nor _c_o_m_m_a_n_d is specified then the com- |
- mand returns the path name of the window in this appli- |
- cation that owns the selection, or an empty string if |
- no window in this application owns the selection.
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- KEYWORDS
- clear, format, handler, ICCCM, own, selection, target, type
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