From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Shann Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.user Subject: Re: Getting the (text) selection from the clipboard Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2009 19:09:31 +0100 Message-ID: <1245348571.2949.131.camel@debianrts.home> Reply-To: richard.shann@virgin.net NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1245348777 9702 80.91.229.12 (18 Jun 2009 18:12:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2009 18:12:57 +0000 (UTC) To: guile-user@gnu.org Original-X-From: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jun 18 20:12:52 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-user@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1MHM6V-0000Gv-6D for guile-user@m.gmane.org; Thu, 18 Jun 2009 20:12:51 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:52395 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MHM6U-0006xN-56 for guile-user@m.gmane.org; Thu, 18 Jun 2009 14:12:50 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MHM69-0006u1-0H for guile-user@gnu.org; Thu, 18 Jun 2009 14:12:29 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MHM64-0006pO-El for guile-user@gnu.org; Thu, 18 Jun 2009 14:12:28 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=49153 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MHM64-0006pD-BN for guile-user@gnu.org; Thu, 18 Jun 2009 14:12:24 -0400 Original-Received: from smtprelay-virgin0176.hostedemail.com ([64.99.136.176]:60250 helo=smtprelay-virgin.hostedemail.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MHM64-0001EH-3r for guile-user@gnu.org; Thu, 18 Jun 2009 14:12:24 -0400 Original-Received: from filter.hostedemail.com (ff-bigip1 [10.5.19.254]) by smtprelay07.hostedemail.com (Postfix) with SMTP id 3AD7011A9660 for ; Thu, 18 Jun 2009 18:12:23 +0000 (UTC) X-Spam-Summary: 2, 0, 0, 0a1648630cf82040, 16b38fae4e793168, richard.shann@virgin.net, guile-user@gnu.org, RULES_HIT:355:379:541:599:601:973:988:989:1260:1261:1277:1311:1313:1314:1345:1373:1437:1515:1516:1518:1534:1539:1711:1730:1747:1766:1792:2393:2559:2562:3027:3352:3636:3865:3867:3869:3870:3871:3872:3873:3874:3876:3877:3961:4362:4605:5007:6114:6119:7652:7875:7903:7904:8501:9040, 0, RBL:none, CacheIP:none, Bayesian:0.5, 0.5, 0.5, Netcheck:none, DomainCache:0, MSF:not bulk, SPF:, MSBL:none, DNSBL:none X-Session-Marker: 726963686172642E7368616E6E X-Filterd-Recvd-Size: 1229 Original-Received: from [192.168.2.3] (87.112.92.142.plusnet.ptn-ag2.dyn.plus.net [87.112.92.142]) (Authenticated sender: richard.shann) by omf12.hostedemail.com (Postfix) with ESMTP for ; Thu, 18 Jun 2009 18:12:22 +0000 (UTC) X-Mailer: Evolution 2.22.3.1 X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-BeenThere: guile-user@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: General Guile related discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.user:7330 Archived-At: Thanks for the info: as we have gtk in Denemo I've used that - just didn't want to be doing something stupid! Richard > > Does anyone know if there is a guile procedure to get the (text) > > selection? (That is from doing Copy in another application) > > Richard > > I assume you mean in the X sense. > > In core Guile: no. But maybe guile-gtk or guile-gnome might expose an > equivalent Gtk+ API? > > (There is also guile-xlib, which might theoretically be a good place > for this; but in practice it doesn't provide any selection APIs.) > > Regards, > Neil > > >