Re: Mozilla selections question

Havoc Pennington <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.mozilla.devel.gtk
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Philip <[email protected]> writes: 
> However, we want to give the user the same feature in our
> clipboard-manager.. so to retrive the HTML-text of a selection in Mozilla.
> So my question, how do I do this? Is it just by changing the Atom from for
> example CLIPBOARD or PRIMARY to a Mozilla-defined Atom and if so which
> one? Or is it a more complex way? Is there documentation about this
> subject? Or should I start exploring the sources of OpenOffice.org and
> Mozilla :-\ ? I have already started searching in the sources of Mozilla
> and found files like nsClipboard.cpp..
> 

You want to ask for a different target type, rather than the text
target. gtk_clipboard_request_contents() takes a "target" argument,
that's what you need to change.

To get the available targets, ask for the special TARGETS target. See
gtkentry.c in GTK 2.0 for an example.

Havoc
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