[Sugar-devel] Does it make sense to have Activities copy text to the clipboard?

[Gonzalo Odiard]

On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 12:55 PM, James Simmons <nicestep at gmail.com> wrote:

> The code for the Activity is here:
>
>
> http://git.sugarlabs.org/myo-sugar-activities-examples/mainline/blobs/master/Add_Refinements_gtk3/ReadEtextsActivity2.py
>
> The code being executed is:
>
> def edit_toolbar_copy_cb(self, button):
>         textbuffer = self.textview.get_buffer()
>         begin, end = textbuffer.get_selection_bounds()
>         copy_text = textbuffer.get_text(begin, end,  False)
>         self.clipboard.set_text(copy_text)
>
> The definition for self.clipboard is:
>
>        self.clipboard = Gtk.Clipboard()
>
>
>
Have you tried?:

clipboard = Gtk.Clipboard.get(Gdk.SELECTION_CLIPBOARD)



> on line 166.
>
>
> This code is similar to what was in my Read Etexts Activity. I'll have to see if that one still works. I know textbuffer.get_text() used to take only two parameters and now needs three.
>
>
> But thanks for confirming that the clipboard works as I described. That means it's my problem and I can try and figure it out.
>
>
> James Simmons
>
>
>
> On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 6:40 PM, Walter Bender <walter.bender at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 6:20 PM, James Simmons <nicestep at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > GCI has come and gone and none of my MYOSA tasks got done so I decided
>> that
>> > if I'm going to get a GCI T-shirt this year I'd better do something to
>> earn
>> > it. So I'm doing the tasks that I tried to get GCI-ers to do for me.
>> >
>> > I'm really rusty at this, but I did manage to update the Gtk3 version
>> of the
>> > Adding Refinements example to use the current toolbar. However, when
>> testing
>> > it I discovered that copying text to the clipboard doesn't work the way
>> I
>> > remembered it. It seems to me that when I did the copy in the past there
>> > would be an object in the frame that was the clipboard entry. You could
>> have
>> > several of these, and there was a menu option to make Journal entries
>> out of
>> > them. That's how I remember it, anyway.
>> >
>> > I don't see this anymore, and I wonder if it is a change to Sugar
>> itself or
>> > just a bug in my code.
>>
>> Hard to say without a link to your code :P
>>
>> You prob. want something like this:
>>
>>         clipboard = Gtk.Clipboard.get(Gdk.SELECTION_CLIPBOARD)
>>         text_buffer.copy_clipboard(clipboard)
>>
>> regards
>>
>> -walter
>>
>> >
>> > James Simmons
>> >
>> >
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>>
>>
>> --
>> Walter Bender
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