Re: [Gtk2hs-users] how to paste in a textbuffer

[Andy S. <laz...@gm...>]

You will find function `textViewCopy` `textViewPaste` `textViewCut`
`textViewDelete`.

Of course, you will found many other useful functions in this library.

Cheers,

  -- Andy

John O'Donnell <jt...@dc...> writes:

> Hi,
>
> In gtk2hs (0.10.0, with ghc 6.10.3), I'm trying to make a Paste menu 
> item work; i.e. trying to make it paste the clipboard into a text 
> buffer.  (You can do cut, copy, paste by right clicking in the text, and 
> then selecting the operation from the popup menu, but I'm trying to make 
> an edit menu Paste entry do the same.)  Thus I just want the menu 
> Edit:Paste to behave the same as right click: Paste.
>
> The textBufferPasteClipboard appears to be suitable:
>
> textBufferPasteClipboard
> :: TextBufferClass self
> => self
> -> Clipboard    clipboard - the GtkClipboard to paste from
> -> TextIter    overrideLocation - location to insert pasted text
> -> Bool    defaultEditable - whether the buffer is editable by default
> -> IO ()
>
> I would have expected the third (location) argument to be of type Maybe 
> TextIter, so you could say Nothing to get the default location (the 
> mouse cursor), and Just iter to override it.  But the type is TextIter, 
> so it seems to be necessary to construct an Iter pointing to the default 
> location, which should then override the default location in order to 
> give the default location.  (Sounds a bit strange!)
>
> Two questions:
>    1.  Is there a way to do a paste simply, without the bother of making 
> a TextIter?  The other operations with the edit menu are 1-liners.
>   2.  How can you get a TextIter to point to where the mouse cursor is?
>
> Thanks!
> John O'Donnell