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From: piyush@applix.com (Piyush Jain [ext 250])
Newsgroups: comp.windows.open-look
Subject: Can't Cut-n-Paste to OpenWin apps....
Message-ID: <1115@applix.com>
Date: 27 Jan 91 02:08:34 GMT
Organization: APPLiX Inc., Westboro, MA
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I'm developing an application using Xlib and need to support cut-n-paste
to/from OpenWindows applications.  Haven't been able to paste into
OW windows yet.  Here's the process I'm using (as specified in the
X Protocol Ref Manual).  Wonder if anyone can shed some light on this.....

	1.	User selects something in my aplication.  I grab the XA_PRIMARY atom.
	2.	User indicates he wants to cut selection.  I grab (XA_)CLIPBOARD.
	3.	User uses "Term Pane" menu to paste into OW window (say shelltool).

		**	A notice pops up saying that nothing is on the clipboard (why??).
				(which clipboard is it looking at ??)

		**	I then get a SelectionRequest event with the following members:
					selection:		CLIPBOARD (of which I am the owner)
					property:		<some property name>
					property_type:	LENGTH
			So I compute the number of bytes in the selection, store 
			this information on the requested property using XChangeProperty,
			and send it back to the OW window using XSendEvent. 

		**  The OW window (example: shelltool) dumps core with a signal
			segmentation fault (it's apparently trying to allocate a very
			very large chunk of memory) !!!


HELP!!!!

--
Piyush Jain
piyush@applix.com