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I am trying to copy and paste text to the X clipboard, and that should
be a really simple process, but the documentation: is very abstract, and with no examples. Please add examples to the documentation if possible. This page has some good start info: http://www.microimages.com/mix/clipprog.htm -------- Atom XA_UTF8 = XInternAtom(display, "UTF8", 0); Atom XA_UNICODE = XInternAtom(display, "UNICODE", 0); Atom XA_CLIPBOARD = XInternAtom(display, "CLIPBOARD", 0); This declares two Atoms to use. Now, to put something on the Windows clipboard, call... XChangeProperty(display, RootWindow(display, 0), XA_CLIPBOARD, XA_UTF8, 8, PropModeReplace, buf, strlen(buf) + 1); If the text you're placing on the clipboard is Unicode instead of UTF8, pass 16 for the 5th parameter and be sure to use wcstrlen() instead of strlen(). The length is still number of characters, not bytes. To get text off the Windows clipboard, call... Atom actual_type;
int actual_format;
unsigned long nitems, leftover;
unsigned char* buf;
if (XGetWindowProperty(display, RootWindow(display,0), XA_CLIPBOARD, 0, 10000000L, False, XA_UTF8, &actual_type, &actual_format, &nitems, &leftover, &buf) == Success) {;
/* Use buf */
free(buf);
}
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XA_CLIPBOARD should be in atoms.h with XA_PRIMARY, I think...But the main thing is that when I do the: XChangeProperty(display, RootWindow(display, 0), XA_CLIPBOARD, XA_UTF8, 8, PropModeReplace, buf, strlen(buf) + 1); I get a message from XClipboard, after a few seconds of delay that "XCLIPBOARD selection conversion failed". What am I doing wrong? thanks Ted -- Ted Huntington Programmer Analyst I Main Library University of California, Irvine PO Box 19557 Irvine, CA 92623-9557 emesgs: thunting@xxxxxxx web page: http://business.lib.uci.edu/webpages/ted.htm 8:00a-12:00p Business Office (949) 824-8926 1:00p-5:00p Multimedia Resource Center (949) 824-1674 "Stop violence, teach science." |
