>>>> No educated bug report, but just now I tried to >>>> coppy/paste some text from OS X Mail to my app >>>> running GTXWC, and the app just hung with 100% >>>> CPU consumption. > > this is a long shot, but. > > is this even supposed to work? i do not know the level of integration > of x11 in osx, but there could be problems (there certainly have been > in the past, according to my friend google). > > can you copy and paste between other x11 apps and native apps? say, > something like abiword and whatever-notepad-is-on-osx (but anyhow do > not use xterm and terminal.app for these tests). you should try > selecting (with the mouse, just selecting, nothing else) in abiword, > and pasting in $notepad; selecting and edit->copy in abiword, pasting > in $notepad.
Yes of course. It used to work most of the time. I'm narrowing it down to my own code now and it seems Harbour is not at fault here, now I have to investigate a little bit why such didn't happen on win. More in another mail soon. > this copy-paste thing in x11 is pretty much unlike anything else. > there are two places something can end up, a "primary" selection (this > gets stuff if you select text in an xterm, for example -- this is > sort of an implicit buffer), and a "clipboard" selection (this gets > stuff if you explicitly copy in something, by means of edit->copy in > an application). far as i can tell, gtxwc plays it safe and always > updates both selections (this does seem to work well), so it could > well be an integration issue on osx? trying it with an independent x > app could reveal what might be wrong. > > there's a very condensed page about this whole business at > > http://www.jwz.org/doc/x-cut-and-paste.html > >>> anyway, if seems that XWC_DEBUG activates a whole lot of >>> clipboard-related debug stuff, do you get any clue with that? >> >> I didn't try that yet, for that I'll need to rebuild >> everything, which is not option these days. > > turns out it doesn't worth it without some more surgery. with > XWC_DEBUG, it just gets so overly verbose no way to cherrypick the > relevant piece anyway :) As it turns, problem isn't that deep anyway. >>> (how is copy-pasting w/ xwc supposed to work? just like any other x >>> app i'd like to hope but still asking, point mouse, click, hold/point >>> mouse, hit middle button?) >> >> This application use hb_gtInfo( HB_GTI_CLIPBOARDDATA ) to >> copy and paste on all platforms/GTs. It works alright in >> GTWIN and GTWVT. > > this seems to be working fine on linux, well almost. this (as far as i > can tell) seems intentional in gtxwc.c:3072, but it's as if the > selections were cleared by this as well (so anything i have in primary > when an xwc app starts, hb_gtInfo( HB_GTI_CLIPBOARDDATA ) will return > empty -- this is somewhat surprising, but its not to say this is a > huge problem or something). Hm, I didn't check this, but it'd be good behavior if a Harbour app could pick what was already placed on clipboard before its start. Could be annoying for users, since apps usually don't have such limitations. Brgds, Viktor _______________________________________________ Harbour mailing list (attachment size limit: 40KB) Harbour@harbour-project.org http://lists.harbour-project.org/mailman/listinfo/harbour
