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From: diamant@hpfclp.HP.COM (John Diamant)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Selections, Targets, Properties, Atoms ?
Message-ID: <9740013@hpfclp.HP.COM>
Date: 4 Apr 88 18:41:41 GMT
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Organization: HP SDE, Fort Collins, CO
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> > On a slightly different topic, if the owner of a selection receives
> > a SelectionRequest event asking it to convert a selection to an unknown
> > target (meaning a target type that the owner doesn't recognize), 
> > is it OK for the owner to translate to some arbitrary fallback target type
> > (such as XA_STRING), then return the fallback target to the requestor
> > in the SelectionNotify event?
> 
> The draft manual I mentioned above says to do exactly that.

Please ignore my comment above.  Of course, RWS is correct; you aren't
supposed to return a different type than what was requested.  I'm not
sure whether I was remembering something I read in an earlier draft of
the conventions manual or with other similar selection systems.  Sorry
for the confusion.  The current draft of the conventions manual says to
refuse the selection request if the target is not supported.

John Diamant
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