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From: tomj@snowking.Eng.Sun.COM (Tom Jacobs)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.news
Subject: Re: Selections in OW 2.0, How to copy from appl. to another ?
Message-ID: <1990Sep27.125839@snowking.Eng.Sun.COM>
Date: 27 Sep 90 19:58:39 GMT
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In article <KS.90Sep27181300@karikukko.tut.fi>, ks@tut.fi (Syst{ Kari) writes:
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|> The xview-applications seem to have they very own selection-buffers and
|> a special (undocumented?) program 'xv_get_sel' can get the contents of a
|> the selected text from a xview-application. Unfortunately if no text
|> is selected, I get a error message
|> X Error:  BadWindow
|>   Request Major code 2 ()
|>   Request Minor code 1
|>   ResourceID 0xb00004
|>   Error Serial #148
|>   Current Serial #148
|> and if my console happens to be xterm, it dies !

The xv_get_sel command is exactly equivalent to the SunView get_selection
command.  You've discovered a bug :-) that we'll take a look at.  BTW, the
man page for xv_get_sel accidently got left out of OWV2, so here it is...

--Tom
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XV_GET_SEL(1)             USER COMMANDS              XV_GET_SEL(1)



NAME
     xv_get_sel  - copy the contents of a X selection rank to
     the standard output

SYNOPSIS
     xv_get_sel [ rank ] [ t seconds ] [ D ]

AVAILABILITY
     This command is available with the OpenWindow's software
     installation.

DESCRIPTION
     xv_get_sel prints the contents of the indicated selection
     on  standard  out.   A  selection is a collection of objects
     (for instance, characters) picked with the mouse in the
OpenWindows
     X11/NeWS window system.

OPTIONS
     rank           Indicate which selection is to be printed:
                    1:  primary;
                    2:  secondary;
                    3:  clipboard.

                    The default is primary.

     t  seconds     Indicate how many seconds  to  wait  for  the
                    holder of a selection to respond to a request
                    before giving up.  The default is 6 seconds.

     D              Debugging. Inquire through a  special  debug-
                    ging  service  for the selection, rather than
                    accessing the standard service.  Useful  only
                    for  debugging  window applications which are
                    clients of the selection library.

EXAMPLE
     The following line in a OpenWindows Desktop menu  file  provides 
a
     menu  command  to  print the primary selection on the user's
     default printer:


          ``Print It''      csh  -c xv_get_sel | lpr


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