[Gambas-user] clipboard

[Stefano Palmeri]

Il martedì 9 giugno 2009 04:03:48 Beren Scott ha scritto:
> Is it because technically linux doesn't have a clipboard, and that
> simply put the copy command simply applies a reference to the location
> of the item you have copied, and then when you paste, it looks up the
> item you wish to paste?
>
> I guess I am trying to find some type of work around, because the
> program simply will not function successfully without the ability to
> copy an item into clipboard. Take for example, it's like this, I have
> Opera browser, and I want the program to generate URL's, and then I want
> to using the ctrl - shift V command paste and go. It's all about speed.
>
> Now, if there is an alternative way to do this, I'd love it. The other
> alternative could be to design a browser into the program itself?
> Though, I'm not much of a coder, but I'm willing to give it a go if need
> be.
>
> I have a mission, and that is to complete this program, rofl, I am half
> tempted to convert the program to c++, but to be honest, I'd rather do
> it in basic, been programming in basic most my life, so not giving up
> yet. Any chance of a change to the way gambas handles clipboard
> functions?
>

I don't know. This is a question for Benoit :-)

If the application you're developing is just for you
and you don't need to redistribute it, you could install
an utility like xclip or xsel and call them with SHELL.

> On Mon, 2009-06-08 at 18:17 +0200, Stefano Palmeri wrote:
> > Il lunedì 8 giugno 2009 17:27:11 Beren Scott ha scritto:
> > > On Mon, 2009-06-08 at 16:47 +0200, Stefano Palmeri wrote:
> > > > Il lunedì 8 giugno 2009 16:03:23 Beren Scott ha scritto:
> > > > > On Mon, 2009-06-08 at 02:44 -0700, charlesg wrote:
> > > > > > Hi,
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Clipboard.Copy(txtItem.text)
> > > > > >
> > > > > > rgds
> > > > >
> > > > > The problem is however that I am currently console only, no gui,
> > > > > and I am getting a non-existent item error on "clipboard". Do I
> > > > > have to add any lines of code to fix this?
> > > > >
> > > > >
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> > > Okay, that is done, but now I am finding that it isn't copying anything
> > > into the clipboard. Take for example, I want to use the copied data in
> > > another program, copy from gambas2, paste into a web browser. But
> > > nothing is being copied into the clipboard.
> >
> > Oh, you're right. I don't know if this is a bug. Hope Benoit
> > reads this. It seems that Gambas copy on its own clipboard.
> > I don't understand.
> > This code:
> >
> > PUBLIC SUB Main()
> >
> >    DIM sss AS String
> >
> >    Clipboard.Copy("hello")
> >    sss = Clipboard.Paste()
> >
> >    PRINT sss
> >
> > END
> >
> > simply print the string on console, but nothing
> > on KDE clipboard or X clipborad (tested with xsel).
> > So, I don't know.
> >
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