Hi, Tor Lillqvist <tml@xxxxxx> writes: > Sven Neumann writes: > > What is the state of support for the GDK clipboard in the win32 > > backend? > > For the *GDK* clipboard only cut&paste of text is supported. The > winclipboard plug-in uses the Windows clipboard directly. > > > Michael reported that he can't even copy and paste image data > > from one GIMP instance to the other on Win32. Would that be supposed > > to work? > > Yes it does work. (Although I now notice that it always copies the > whole drawable to the Windows clipboard, not just the selection as one > would expect). I was actually asking about the newly added support for the system clipboard which is supposed to obsolete the winclipboard plug-in. Well, you basically answered that above. So the answer is that it is _not_ supposed to work :( This is rather unfortunate. When I started to implement the GDK clipboard functionality I was hoping there was better support for it in the win32 GDK backend. Sven
