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?
> >
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