[Xquartz-dev] 1.4.2-apple20 - copy-paste

[George Peter Staplin]

Quoted Dave Ray <apple at jonive.com>:

> On the topic of copy-paste, I want to give an update for the latest
> betas on my system.
>
> I can copy and paste both directions between Textedit and xterm.
> I can copy and paste both directions with X11-Gimp and Preview.
>
> I continue to have unusual copy-paste behavior between X11-Gimp and
> Adobe Photoshop, Results are the same as I described from the previous
> version. I can copy from Gimp to Photoshop, but not the other way. I
> can copy from Photoshop to Preview fine and Preview to Gimp fine.

Well, that's interesting that it's still not working between Photoshop  
and Gimp.  I don't have Photoshop available to test with.

I suspect that Photoshop is using a Pict format with NSPasteboard, but  
I have no way of knowing for sure, unless I can add some introspection  
for the available types.  I will look into this further, and perhaps  
write a test application for you that would print out the available  
NSPasteboard types.  I want it to work flawlessly between all apps, as  
much as possible.

Right now we support TIFF, JPEG, PNG, UTF-8, CompoundText, and STRING/Latin-1.

The Pict support was more difficult I think, because I'm not sure how  
to translate between the Pict and the various formats.  We need to  
convert Pict to TIFF, and Pict to PNG for the best results.

> I continue to have unusual copy-paste behavior between X11-Eterm and
> anything othe than Eterm. Results are the same as I described from the
> previous version. Seems like they use different buffers. Under Linux I
> use a mix of xterm and Eterm and never saw this problem.

I have this on the TODO list on my desk.  I'm sorry that it's taking a  
while to get to.  I will try to take a look at the Eterm sources, as I  
suspect they are doing something unexpected.

> Let me know if there's any info I can collect that could be useful.
> Dave

If I can think of anything, I will let you know.  Once I've written  
the code for NSPasteboard introspection we should be able to get a  
little further on one of these issues.  I appreciate your feedback.


George
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