Clemens Zeidler wrote: > Hi, > could anybody tell me how this work? I mean how does the x-server > know which text is selected? Must every > application sent a message to the xserver that something is selected? > Or sent the xserver a copy command to the active application when a > mouse button is released? The burden is entirely on the application to decide what gets selected and when it gets updated. Yes, the app has to send a message to the server with the selection. The clipboard process is more complicated in X than it is in Windows. If you want to read about it, chapter 10.3 of volume I of the old O'Reilly books on Xlib describe the process. You can read about XSetSelectionOwner and XConvertSelection, and the SelectionNotify event. -- Tim Roberts, timr@xxxxxxxxx Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc. _______________________________________________ Devel@xxxxxxxxxxx http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel
