My test was on a Windows 7 machine, I was able to copy/paste in both directions. The target application was the Chrome browser.
--Jafar On Mon, Nov 2, 2015, 8:53 PM Bruce & Breeanna Rennie <[email protected]> wrote: > Good afternoon Clinton, > > I have just tried using xterm and emacs and I cannot get a paste to > occur from the UI. I am running Centos 6 and using xfce. I will try this > on my wife's windows 7 machine later today and see if I have the same > problems there. > > The application I have written is to be used on both windows and linux > machines. > > regards > > Bruce Rennie > > On 03/11/15 12:04, Jeffery, Clint ([email protected]) wrote: > > My initial reaction to this bug report was to reproduce/confirm it. > WAttrib("selection="|| ...) did not paste nicely into OpenOffice or into > Chrome on my Linux box. But it Did paste nicely into a Terminal window, > and into an Emacs running in its own (GUI, not console) window. So it is a > little more complicated than just: our selection code has become broken > somehow. It is more like: many typical modern Linux applications do not > grok our classic X11 selection mechanism and seem to use something else. > > > > Cheers, > > Clint > > ________________________________________ > > From: Bruce & Breeanna Rennie <[email protected]> > > Sent: Monday, November 2, 2015 3:56 PM > > To: Jafar Al-Gharaibeh; Unicon group > > Subject: Re: [Unicon-group] IVIB application nearly working. A final > question (I hope) > > > > Good morning Jafar, > > > > As you have said, you can copy from another application to the Unicon > > IDE. However, the reverse is not true, at least in linux. I was able to > > copy from gedit to UI but I could not copy from UI to gedit. > > > > A quick follow through the code doesn't appear to show how to get to the > > system clipboard. The UI creates a Clipboard object but this appears to > > local to the Unicon VM. I will continue looking later today when I am > > back from firewood collecting. > > > > regards > > > > Bruce Rennie > > > > On 03/11/15 06:24, Jafar Al-Gharaibeh wrote: > >> You should be able to do "global" clipboard" copy/paste. I quickly > >> tried that in the Unicon IDE and I was able to copy paste from another > >> application. I will look up the details and let you know when I get a > >> chance if you don't get it to work by then. > >> > >> --Jafar > >> > >> On Mon, Nov 2, 2015 at 5:13 AM, Bruce & Breeanna Rennie > >> <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > >> > >> To all a good evening, > >> > >> I now have completed coding of my application except for the copy to > >> clipboard function. > >> > >> Looking at UTR6c, there is an example of copy/paste to/from > clipboard. > >> Notably, it uses the WAttrib("selection=" || longstr) to copy the > data > >> to the clipboard. One is then able to copy back to elsewhere. > >> > >> However, I am finding that this is local to the Unicon window > >> opened. It > >> has no effect on the system clipboard. Is there any known method > >> (cross-platform) in which I can copy from my application to another > >> application running, e.g. to some editor or application like > >> libreoffice? > >> > >> Or is this going to involve writing a C function to handle this? > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > > Unicon-group mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unicon-group > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > Unicon-group mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unicon-group >
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