* On 2012 24 Jan 02:38 -0600, Matthew Brush wrote: > I think the middle click is working except for the fact that for > whatever reason now it clears the *X selection* when the Scintilla > selection is cleared, and it didn't do this before. Those notes on > the spec are too vague and leave out the part of whether deselecting > text should create a new blank selection as you suggest or leave the > contents of the last selection that was made. I have no idea about > the X or ICCCM specs myself.
Somewhat related, perhaps not. I am working on a wxWidgets application and am using the wxTextCtrl in single line mode. What I find when I tab into the control is that the already present text is selected. If I switch to another app, say XFCE terminal, a middle click there pastes the text. When I switch back to the wxWidgets app, the selection is cleared, i.e. the text is no longer highlighted, and switching back to the terminal and middle-clicking results in no text being pasted--the X copy buffer has been cleared. Ideally, I am trying to assure that the text is never selected in the first place, but that is proving a bit of a challenge. The Multi-line version of wxTextCtrl does not select the text automatically, but is a bit large for my purposes. :-) Back in ye olden days, as I recall, text had to be selected by the mouse using the left button along with mouse movement for the text to be copied to the X buffer--selecting text with the keyboard did not copy it to the X buffer although the toolkit's provided buffer could be copied into with an accelerator key/menu selection. Then clearing the text by deleting it and then clicking elsewhere in the app and finally middle-clicking pasted the text. The buffer would retain that text until a new selection was made. At least that's how I recall it used to be done. <rant> The newer desktops and GUI toolkits seem to have mucked with this enough that it seems as though I don't know what will remain in the X buffer and what will be in a toolkit's copy buffer. Therefore apps like XFCE's Clipman and KDE's clipboard manager are essential, especially with Firefox's address bar. As I see it, this whole paste buffer issue has become a bit of a roullette wheel over the past several years and is not just limited to Geany. While I happily left the look of Motif apps behind, I don't recall these sorts of text buffer issues with them. I will say this, getting used to the availability of the X buffer over the years, I find it a real limitation when it is not available on other platforms, i.e. MS Windows. </rant> - Nate >> -- "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears this is true." Ham radio, Linux, bikes, and more: http://www.n0nb.us _______________________________________________ Geany mailing list [email protected] https://lists.uvena.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geany
