| Title: | DECWINDOWS 26-JAN-89 to 29-NOV-90 |
| Notice: | See 1639.0 for VMS V5.3 kit; 2043.0 for 5.4 IFT kit |
| Moderator: | STAR::VATNE |
| Created: | Mon Oct 30 1989 |
| Last Modified: | Mon Dec 31 1990 |
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I'm trying to implement part of the "quick copy" utility as described
in chapter 12 of the guide to decwindows application programming (I
think that is the manual). Anyway, does anyone know how to get the
text that has been highlighted from MB3? I specify a callback for
the function XtOwnSelection which is supposed to convert the selected
text to the requested format. But I don't know how to get the text
from within that callback. Can anyone help? I can post my code if
it would make my question more clear.
thanks,
jim
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| 3160.1 | DECWIN::FISHER | Locutus: Fact or Fraud? | Wed Aug 01 1990 17:52 | 10 | |
I don't know how to do it in general, but is the question related specifically to QuickCopy? I.e. do you know how to do the primary selection stuff with MB1? If you know the former, the later should be the same except that the selection name is different. Replace the word PRIMARY with SECONDARY in the selection name and I think that does it. Don't know if that is helpful; I admit to nearly complete ignorance in this area. Burns | |||||
| 3160.2 | more info | TOWNS::HOOVER | Wed Aug 01 1990 18:05 | 29 | |
I am going after the SECONDARY selection (choosen by MB3).
I have my application running (it has focus) and I move the mouse over
to another window and select text with MB3. That application sends
me a client message with tells me it has data. I do an XtOwnSelection
(which is were I specify my get_text callback routine which is
supposed to get the text as I described in .1) and then I do an
XtGetSelectionValue (which through a callback gets the data from
get_text above). My question is how do actually get the selected
text? The example just says something like this:
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/* allocate buffer using xmalloc */
/* get text and fill in buffer */
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I don't know how to do that and the documentation seems to make it
sound trivial. Any sugestions?
thanks,
jim
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