On Thursday 05 December 2002 5:59 pm, John Levon wrote: > X selection is application global, hence dealing with it should be > refactored into lyx_gui class : > > lyx_gui::getClipboard(BufferView & bv); > > lyx_gui::putClipboard(string const & str); > > What's the problem with doing this ?
There is no problem. I'm glad that I understood the code. I was merely pointing out that this requires knowledge of the current BufferView and I thought that that was something we were trying to do away with. > xforms may indeed need a work area for handling the get/put, but this > can be any work_area at all, since it's not workarea specific. Such a > requirement should be behind the frontends firewall IMHO. Sometimes I'm not sure we talk the same language. I can't grok this paragraph at all. I will note that there's a a one-to-one correspondence between BufferView and WorkArea, so I really don't see what point you're trying to make. Angus
