Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!sun-barr!decwrl!asente From: asente@decwrl.dec.com (Paul Asente) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x Subject: Re: Xt selections and Xview server Keywords: CurrentTime, selections, Xt, Xview Message-ID: <1935@bacchus.dec.com> Date: 17 Oct 89 22:50:07 GMT References: <841@mit-amt.MEDIA.MIT.EDU> Organization: DEC Western Software Lab Lines: 11 In article <841@mit-amt.MEDIA.MIT.EDU> geek@mit-amt.MEDIA.MIT.EDU (Chris Schmandt) writes: >Be warned. When working with Xt and the Xview server, do NOT use >CurrentTime as the time field in selection operations (such as >XtOwnSelection and XtGetSelectionValues). It doesn't matter what server you're using, CurrentTime is not an appropriate timestamp to pass to any of these routines. They need a real timestamp for them to work properly. -paul asente asente@decwrl.dec.com decwrl!asente