- Original Message -
From: Harold L Hunt II [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: G O Economou [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, January 30, 2003 1:01 PM
Subject: Re: If you were writing a Windows and X clipboard integration
manager...
Oh, but I have already release something:
http://xfree86.cygwin.com/devel/xwinclip/changelog.html
In fact, I have made 8 releases :) I originally copied text from
CUT_BUFFER0, which worked fine for me. As soon as I released this
people started complaining about what it did not do (namely, it didn't
handle non-U.S. text).
The way that xwinclip copies text was then rewritten to work with
non-U.S. text, which introduced the problem of unhighlighting the
selected text.
Most recently we integrated the xwinclip functionality into a seperate
thread in the X Server (XWin.exe) process, which works quite well:
http://xfree86.cygwin.com/devel/shadow/changelog.html (see Test73)
I came up with the idea of monitoring CUT_BUFFER0 for changes to let me
know to copy data from CLIPBOARD only last week. So, I have not
implemented that idea yet and I wanted to see if there were other
options I should explore before moving down that path (since most ideas
I have had do have some drawbacks that I did not anticipate).
Thanks for your input,
Harold
G O Economou wrote:
- Original Message -
From: Harold L Hunt II [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: xfree86-devel [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, January 30, 2003 10:59 AM
Subject: If you were writing a Windows and X clipboard integration
manager...
...how would you do it, in 150 words or less?
Seriously, I have been working on this for over a year and I would love
to
hear some of the ideas that people have because I am completely stumped
on
how to make such a clipboard manager work properly.
It would be nice if someone responded this time...
Harold Hunt
Cygwin/XFree86
Harold you are making this issue unnecessarily complicated. You are
getting
lost in the forest for the trees. .. ONe instead of caring about non-US
users, the few out there that exist, work first on getting something
going.
Then once that is working work on refining
the process. You cannot make it work with every app out there. MS does
not
do that either. There are too many non-compliant progams written by
organgutans out there to hit them all.
Make yours compliant what you consider the major issues (Browsers, Mail
Managers). Put something out otherwise you marginalise yourself. Basic
IT
101 but very non CS thinking.
Georgina
Yes, there are at least 3 clipboard/cut-buffer mechanisms. We
originally set out to watch for CUT_BUFFER0 to change, at which point we
would copy it to the Windows clipboard. That seemed fine, except that
non-U.S. users screamed bloody murder because CUT_BUFFERs do not let you
get non ascii/latin1 encoded text. Also, some users claim that not all
X applications paste data to CUT_BUFFER0.
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