Presentation action for getting text into an X cut_buffer0

• To: aboulanger@BBN.COM, clim@BBN.COM
• Subject: Presentation action for getting text into an X cut_buffer0
• From: Scott McKay <SWM@stony-brook.scrc.symbolics.com>
• Date: Wed, 29 Sep 1993 12:24 -0400
• In-Reply-To: The message of 28 Sep 1993 18:54 EDT from aboulang@BBN.COM

    Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1993 18:54 EDT
    From: aboulang@BBN.COM


    I looked around and found nothing appropiate im my save file from the
    clim mailing list, so here it goes:

      What would be the right (CLX) magic to build a presentation action
      that allows one to add the underlying text of a presentation to be
      available for pasting into another X application, say xterm? The X
      application I have in mind is Liken, the Mac emulator for
      Suns.

I don't know what the CLX magic is, but the way I would implement
some sort of mouse-based cut-and-paste is to write a presentation
action that uses TRACKING-POINTER to sweep out a region, then use
COPY-TEXTUAL-OUTPUT-HISTORY to grab the text.

Making the presentation action give nice feedback is a bit tricky.

    Interoperating,
    Albert Boulanger
    aboulanger@bbn.com

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