xwinclip test 6 hacked to leave selection untouched

[Harold L Hunt II]

Robert,

Hmm... I forgot that not grabbing the selection causes the problem that 
you mention below, namely, that we are no longer notified of further 
changes to the X Selection.

In that case, your patch won't make much of a difference, as there is 
already an earlier version of xwinclip that has that precise behavior. 
It does not make much sense to toggle back and forth between releasing 
verions that do or do not grab the selection.

There must be some part of the X clipboard mechanism that we just are 
not understanding.

I picked up two X Window System books today from the ACM book sale on 
campus today... perhaps one of these will have a better description of 
the clipboard system than the other books I have.

Harold

Robert Fenk wrote:
> On Thursday, November 14, 2002 at 14:19:37, Harold L Hunt II wrote:
> [...]
> 
>>One side note though... please do not call your xwinclip releases
>>test7, or test8, etc. as this will create a great amount of
>>confusion when trying to determine if a user has a problem with an
>>official release or an independent developer's release.  Call them
>>something like xwincip-robf1.tgz.
> 
> 
> Well you are right, I just was about to let you know without
> knowing your email and thinking too much.  I probably will
> remove the file from my homepage tomorrow. 
> 
> 
>>Thanks for the patch,
> 
> 
> Sorry for not providing a patch, but the modified code, I
> had been reindenting it ... ;/ but you should be able to
> create a diff with --irgnore-all-space ...
> 
> Anyway some more notes on the changes:
> 
> The MS$-Code is from:
> 
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/winui/WinUI/WindowsUserInterface/DataExchange/Clipboard/UsingtheClipboard.asp
> 
> To detect selection changes in X11 I used the PropertyNotify
> event from the RootWindow (XSelectInput in xwinclip.c) if
>       event.xproperty.atom != XA_CUT_BUFFER0
> which I just assumed to be right when looking at "xev -id
> root" ... the problem is that you do not get a
> SelectionNotify anymore if you do not hold the selection ...
> 
> 
> Bye Robert
>