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From: [e-mail] (Brad Myers)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Help with selection
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Date: 22 Jan 93 16:02:22 GMT
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Can someone send me code that successfully handles the X/11 copy-paste
selection.  So far, we have just been setting the x cut buffer using
       (setf (xlib:cut-buffer display) str)
(in Lisp) but this isn't good enough when some other application
(like xterm) has the selection "grabbed" (reverse video).  If no-one owns
the selection, then this works fine, actually.  No one in the
Lisp community seems to have this problem solved, so I am asking a wider
audience.  I can't figure out what I need to do from the ICCCM, but maybe
I can figure it out from a working C program.  If you have (hopefully a
small piece of) code that sets the current selection, turning off the
reverse video in other windows, could you please send it to me?

Also, is there any standard format for copying rich (formatted) text or
graphics?  For example, does anyone have code that will accept or
place formatted text into the cut buffer for exchange with FrameMaker?

Thanks,

Brad A. Myers
School of Computer Science
Carnegie Mellon University
5000 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA  15213-3891
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