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

[Walter Bender]

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

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