Re: [pclasses-devel] clipboard support

[Christian P. <cp...@se...>]

Am Montag 17 Januar 2005 23:45 schrieb stephan beal:
> Yo!
>
> i just remembered that i have some s11n-based clipboard code in
> s11nbrowser (http://s11n.net/s11nbrowser/), and realized it would be
> really useful in P2. Before i start porting it i'd like to ask which
> module it should belong to? My original thought is App, but it's more
> generic than that, and can be used at the general framework level.
> Maybe the SIO module would be appropriate?

In general, i like to have clipboard support in P2. It should belong to the UI 
module - cause it is highly UI dependant. 

While looking at your code i wonder why it is called "clipboard"  ? 
For real clipboard support we need at least an interface to X11/Win32 
clipboard.

>
> It requires sigs/slots, but this support could be easily removed, and of
> course s11n (or SIO). Attached is the original (trivial)
> implementation, for the curious. In short, it allows saving any
> Serializable object to a clipboard (and an arbitrary number of
> clipboards may exist). Slots are used to notify listeners when the
> clipboard is updated. The slots support isn't strictly necessary, but
> seems useful, and is definately useful in a UI context. For example, in
> s11nbrowser we connect to slots to update the clipboard-related
> menus/buttons to reflect the current clipboard state.